[TIP] Tracking memory usage during tests

[Thomas Trenner]

Hi,

I'm using py.test to run interface and high-level tests for a C++ library
(Win7, via a python interface).
I am also using the timings coming from the junit-xml output to do some
statistical analysis
that should detect any performance degradations. One other thing I am
concerned about though
is memory usage - as the actual memory-allocating code is written in C++.

Does anyone know of an approach that would give me memory usage statistics
while running the
tests? I thought about changing the assert statements to first log the
memory usage of the process
before doing the actual assert, using something like psutil, but I am not
sure whether this will give a
useful metric? One key question there is whether py.test - in
single-process mode - will always run
the tests in the same order unless tests are added/removed?

I welcome any suggestions on alternative approaches.

Thanks,
Thomas
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