Thanks for the example. I tried and it seems that xdist is running the tests in parallel: the more CPUs I use, the fastest the test suite runs. Do you see a different behavior?
Cheers, On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Goncalo Morgado <[email protected]> wrote: > To better depict what I am saying follows some code. > > $ sudo pip install pytest > $ sudo pip install pytest-xdist > $ py.test -vs test_dummy.py -n 2 > > > #!/usr/bin/env python > > """ > This is test_dummy.py > """ > import pytest > import time > > @pytest.fixture(scope="function", params=["a1", "a2"]) > def fix_dummy(request): > print "fix_dummy: parameter: %s" % (request.param, ) > return request.param > > def test_dummy1(fix_dummy): > print "parameter from fix_dummy: %s" %(fix_dummy, ) > time.sleep(2) > > > Cheers, > Gonçalo > > > > On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 6:45 PM, Goncalo Morgado <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> >> pytest-xdist helped me to run different tests in multiple CPUs, for >> instance test_foo() and test_bar() would easily be run in two CPUs with >> pytest-xdist. The problem is when you have test_foobar(some_fixture), where >> some_fixture is parametrized with, let's say two parameters ["a", "b"], >> which will lead to two different test runs of test_foobar(). The challenge >> is to have these two test runs running in two CPUs. >> >> Cheers >> Gonçalo >> >> >> On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 6:30 PM, Bruno Oliveira <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Have you tried using pytest-xdist? >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 4:26 PM, Goncalo Morgado <[email protected] >>> > wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Hi pytest community, >>>> >>>> I am not sure this is the right place to ask this, and I am sorry if >>>> it's not. >>>> I am trying to make use of multiple CPUs to run my tests, which I can >>>> for separately defined tests (different test_ functions for instance). *The >>>> challenge is to run tests, generated from one single test_ function which >>>> fixture it depends on is parametrized with multiple parameters, on multiple >>>> CPUs*. >>>> Currently I have this test that generates more than a thousand tests >>>> (because of the parametrized fixture it depends on) and ends up being very >>>> time consuming to run in one single CPU. >>>> >>>> Thanks for this great tool that is pytest! >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> Gonçalo >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> pytest-dev mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pytest-dev >>>> >>>> >>> >> >
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