[TIP] Custom execution of nose tests

Alex Gaynor alex.gaynor at gmail.com
Wed Jul 20 21:46:56 PDT 2011


Err, are there any docs with an example of what prepareTestCase should
return?

Thanks,
Alex

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 9:16 PM, Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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