Hello everyone,
my name is Antonio, I'm using Django 1.9 and first of all I'd like to
thank you all contributors for the amazing framework I can work with.
I've just joined the django-dev mailing list to ask your opinion on a
really trivial patch I thought implementing.
Our backend server has with several apps: each app has its own test
package; each test package has several modules; each module has several
classes that has several methods.
In short, when we need to run tests we rarely run:
$ python manage.py test mydjangoapp.app_one.tests
More likely we run:
$ python manage.py test \
mydjangoapp.app_one.tests.test_module.TestClass.test_method_1
This happens especially when we need to investigate a regression, we
need to do a lot of writing because single tests are failing and we just
need to run that very test.
So I thought that it could be very useful a shortcut to get to the
"test_method_1" without writing the full CamelCased namespace all the
way down there.
I hacked together as proof a patch that adds an optional parameter to
the Django Command test.py:
$ python manage.py test --method-filter test_method_1
this can be a comma separated list of methods:
$ python manage.py test --method-filter test_method_1,test_method_2,...
Basically this patch rewrites the TestSuite object created in
DiscoverRunner.run_test(), filtering out method names that do not match
that list. Of course in case of name clashes two test methods from
different apps will run, but I don't find it an issue as we give
meaningful names to test methods. Also, there are many ways that such a
check could be implemented to give it flexibility (albeit simple).
So far I find it quite useful, but maybe because this patch solves a
very narrow use case (mine :-)) but I would like to know if 1) I missed
an already implemented way for such thing and if not 2) would you be
interested in a pr with such a patch.
Thanks for your comments, thoughts, suggestions, etc.
Sorry for the long post.
Regards,
Antonio
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