I'm trying to figure out how to get python setup.py test
to run the equivalent of python -m unittest discover
. I don't want to use a run_tests.py script and I don't want to use any external test tools (like nose
or py.test
). It's OK if the solution only works on python 2.7.
In setup.py
, I think I need to add something to the test_suite
and/or test_loader
fields in config, but I can't seem to find a combination that works correctly:
config = {
'name': name,
'version': version,
'url': url,
'test_suite': '???',
'test_loader': '???',
}
Is this possible using only unittest
built into python 2.7?
FYI, my project structure looks like this:
project/
package/
__init__.py
module.py
tests/
__init__.py
test_module.py
run_tests.py <- I want to delete this
setup.py
Update: This is possible with unittest2
but I want find something equivalent using only unittest
From https://pypi.python.org/pypi/unittest2
unittest2 includes a very basic setuptools compatible test collector. Specify test_suite = 'unittest2.collector' in your setup.py. This starts test discovery with the default parameters from the directory containing setup.py, so it is perhaps most useful as an example (see unittest2/collector.py).
For now, I'm just using a script called run_tests.py
, but I'm hoping I can get rid of this by moving to a solution that only uses python setup.py test
.
Here's the run_tests.py
I'm hoping to remove:
import unittest
if __name__ == '__main__':
# use the default shared TestLoader instance
test_loader = unittest.defaultTestLoader
# use the basic test runner that outputs to sys.stderr
test_runner = unittest.TextTestRunner()
# automatically discover all tests in the current dir of the form test*.py
# NOTE: only works for python 2.7 and later
test_suite = test_loader.discover('.')
# run the test suite
test_runner.run(test_suite)
If you use py27+ or py32+, the solution is pretty simple:
test_suite="tests",