[pytest-dev] excluding marked tests as default behavior

Ofer Nave onave at dyn.com
Tue Apr 16 22:16:16 CEST 2013


That's exactly what I was looking for -- thanks!

-ofer

On 04/16/2013 04:09 PM, holger krekel wrote:
> Hi Ofer,
>
> maybe this solution is more to your liking?
>
>      http://pytest.org/latest/example/simple.html#control-skipping-of-tests-according-to-command-line-option
>
> cheers,
> holger
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 15:49 -0400, Ofer Nave wrote:
>> I do have a working implementation with the following:
>>
>> 1) Create a marker:
>>
>> slow = pytest.mark.skipif("'SLOW' not in os.environ")
>>
>> 2) Mark appropriate tests:
>>
>> @slow
>> def test_which_is_slow():
>>      ...
>>
>> 3) Turn on slow tests from command line:
>>
>> $ SLOW=1 py.test
>>
>> Not exactly the form factor I was looking for, but it does work.
>>
>> -ofer
>>
>> On 04/16/2013 03:39 PM, Ofer Nave wrote:
>>> I understand I can mark tests with `@pytest.mark.whatever` and run
>>> them specifically with `pytest -m whatever`, or run skip them with
>>> `pytest -m 'not whatever'`.  But how I can configure pytest in my
>>> package such that the default behavior is to skip those tests?
>>>
>>> Specifically, I have some tests that are very slow (multiple
>>> seconds each).  I want to mark them 'slow', and have the default
>>> behavior when running `pytest` be to skip them.  That way they
>>> will only run if you explicitly run them with `pytest -m slow`.
>>>
>>> Is there a way to configure this in conftest.py?
>>>
>>> -ofer
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