After a bit of hacking I put together a working test runner for pytest.
Here it is:
"""
Run this app's tests via py.test
place this file in applications/<appname>/bin/
run with: python <your web2py dir>/web2py.py -S paideia -M -R
applications/<appname>/bin/runtest.py
"""
import os
import sys
import pytest
def run_pytest(w2p_dir, test_dir, app_name):
if os.name == 'nt':
errlist = (WindowsError,ValueError,SystemExit)
else:
errlist = (OSError,ValueError,SystemExit)
try:
test_dir = os.path.join(w2p_dir, 'applications', app_name, test_dir)
if test_dir not in sys.path:
sys.path.append(test_dir) # to support imports from current
folder in the testfiles
# modules are applications/[app_name]/modules
modules_path = os.path.join('applications', app_name, 'modules')
if modules_path not in sys.path:
sys.path.append(modules_path) # to support imports from
modules folder
if 'site-packages' not in sys.path:
sys.path.append('site-packages') # support imports from
web2py/site-packages
pytest.main([test_dir]) # run pytest programmatically
except Exception, e:
print type(e), e
if __name__=='__main__':
run_pytest(<your web2py directory>, <your test folder>, <your appname>)
I'll post a slice to w2py slices with this code as well and post the file
in a github repo. I'm not a brilliant programmer, so I'm sure others might
have improvements to suggest (esp. since right now you have to configure
things in the test runner file itself). But it's a working start.
On Wednesday, December 5, 2012 3:06:45 PM UTC-5, Ian W. Scott wrote:
>
> [edit: sorry, I forgot the runtest.py attachment before.]
> I'm trying to use pytest (instead of unittest) to do unit testing for a
> web2py app. I've written a script (attached: runtest.py) to launch py.test,
> which then finds and executes my test files. I run this launcher script in
> a web2py environment like this:
>
> python ~/web/web2py/web2py.py -S paideia -M -R
> applications/paideia/bin/runtest.py
>
> The problem is that when I try to import gluon or any of my app's custom
> modules (where the classes under test live) I get an import error.
>
> This is particularly strange since my runtest.py explicitly adds the app
> modules folder to sys.path (this is mostly cribbed from the testrunner.py
> on web2py slices). But my grasp of the w2p environment and running
> subprocesses is weak at best. (Case in point, testrunner.py passes
> globals() to the test files using execfile(testfile, globals()) but I
> haven't figured out yet how to get pytest to pick up those globals, since
> it doesn't allow me to execute the test files directly.)
>
> Any help is much appreciated. If we can get this working I think it would
> be a help, since some of pytest's functions (e.g., parameterized fixtures
> and automatic fixture clean-up) are pretty powerful.
>
>
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