Running pytest.main(…) does not collect tests

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I’ve created a sub folder with test_*.py files and additional .py files which hold additional methods which are being called.
In the root directory of the project I’ve created main_test.py in which I call pytest.main(['./subdfolder']). pytest is being triggered but I’m getting the blow output:

============================= test session starts =============================
platform win32 -- Python 2.7.14, pytest-3.6.1, py-1.5.3, pluggy-0.6.0
rootdir: C:PycharmProjectsTestingFramework, inifile:
plugins: tap-2.2, report-0.2.1
collected 0 items

======================== no tests ran in 0.01 seconds =========================

Process finished with exit code 0

Asked By: Bored002

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Answer 1

Edited
What I’ve discovered is that I’ve approached it all wrong the command:
pytest.main()
cannot be invoked from the terminal line (i’m using PyCharm) the correct approach is would be to place the all of the code inside of if name == “main“ block in the following manner :

if __name__ == "__main__":
   junit_path = '.Reports/Junit_' + time.strftime("%d%m%Y_%H%M%S") + '.xml'
   result_log_path = '.Reports/Logs/Execution_' + 
   time.strftime("%d%m%Y_%H%M%S") + '.log'
   pytest.main(['-v', '-x','--junitxml', junit_path, '--resultlog', result_log_path])

after that using the terminal command line I was able to call the execution by calling:

python ./<<file name>>

Answered By: Bored002

Answer 2

You need to rename the file to start with test_. In this case main_test.py most likely needs to be test_main.py (reversed).

I found the answer here: 'pytest' exits with no error, but with "collected 0 items"

Answered By: thenarfer

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