[TIP] Need help with IsolationPlugin and nose 0.10 API

[Laurent Ploix]

Did you have a look at insulate plugin? It runs the tests in a
 separated process, but only one.
 http://code.google.com/p/insulatenoseplugin/wiki/Documentation

 2008/4/1, Brandon Corfman <bcorfman at fastmail.fm>:

> Yes, you've got it right -- I'm trying to re-run the test suite within
 >  kNose after the code has changed.
 >
 >  @#$%, I was really hoping I wouldn't have to run subprocess, since
 >  that's what I'm doing now, and it's kind of brittle. (It's also billed
 >  as being cross-platform, but it isn't really.)
 >
 >  My initial testing with nose.run() using the isolation plugin is
 >  noticeably faster for me than using subprocess. That's one reason I was
 >  happy to find it, but I guess it isn't completely reliable yet.
 >
 >  If I don't hear from anyone else, then I'll probably take your
 >  suggestion about submitting a feature request and try to work around the
 >  problem in the meantime.
 >
 >  Thanks for your helpful suggestions.
 >
 >  Best regards,
 >
 > Brandon
 >
 >
 >  Kumar McMillan wrote:
 >  >Hi Brandon.
 >  >from your Active State comment
 >  >http://community.activestate.com/impatient-developers-guide-writing-python-nose-plugins#comment-4864
 >  >it looks like what you are actually trying to do is re-run your suite
 >  >after the code has changed, correct?
 >
 >  >The isolation plugin is kind of overkill for this because it uses a
 >  >separate process for *each* test, thus slowing down the test suite
 >  >considerably.  Another approach might be to drive a nosetests
 >  >subprocess that calls nose.run() and exits [1].  This would mean you'd
 >  >have to scrape the output but you'd probably have to do that anyway
 >  >unless you are introspecting the unittest TestResult (which would be
 >  >painful).  Alternatively, you could submit a feature request asking
 >  >for a way to "clear" all test suites from memory:
 >  >http://code.google.com/p/python-nose/issues/list
 >  .>..this shouldn't be too hard (famous last words:)).
 >
 >
 >
 > _______________________________________________
 >  testing-in-python mailing list
 >  testing-in-python at lists.idyll.org
 >  http://lists.idyll.org/listinfo/testing-in-python
 >



--
 Laurent Ploix

 http://lauploix.blogspot.com/


-- 
Laurent Ploix

http://lauploix.blogspot.com/