[TIP] Custom execution of nose tests

[Alex Gaynor]

Synchronous, normal style is totally fine, so it looks like prepareTestCase
is the right call.  Thanks.

Alex

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 6:32 PM, jason pellerin <jpellerin at gmail.com> wrote:

> That's a fun one. Do you want to wait for cpython to execute each
> test, or send a bunch of tests over to process/process pool and
> collect the results later?
>
> The wait case is not so hard -- you can write a plugin that implements
> prepareTestCase* to wrap the test in the cpythonizing machinery, run
> it, and report the result.
>
> The queue and collect case is sort of a special case of
> multiprocessing which requires writing a new test runner and is
> harder. But basically you write whatever test runner you want and use
> the prepareTestRunner** plugin hook to inject it.
>
> Also we really need to add pypy to our tox config, Kumar. ;)
>
> JP
>
> *
> http://packages.python.org/nose/plugins/interface.html#nose.plugins.base.IPluginInterface.prepareTestCase
>
> **
>
> http://packages.python.org/nose/plugins/interface.html#nose.plugins.base.IPluginInterface.prepareTestRunner
>
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 9:15 PM, Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I've got a fair insane question about nose.  I'd like to be able to
> control
> > how my nose tests are executed, specifically I'm running my suite under
> > PyPy, but I'd like certain tests (in their entirety, setup, test,
> teardown)
> > to be executed on CPython.  I have the machinery to send some code over
> to
> > CPython to execute it, but what I'm missing is the ability to do that
> over
> > the entirety of a test run.  In py.test I believe this could be
> accomplished
> > with a custom test collector.
> > Thanks,
> > Alex
> >
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