Disable individual Python unit tests temporarily

How can individual unit tests be temporarily disabled when using the unittest module in Python?

Solution 1:

Individual test methods or classes can both be disabled using the unittest.skip decorator.

@unittest.skip("reason for skipping")
def test_foo():
    print('This is foo test case.')


@unittest.skip  # no reason needed
def test_bar():
    print('This is bar test case.')

For other options, see the docs for Skipping tests and expected failures.

Solution 2:

You can use decorators to disable the test that can wrap the function and prevent the googletest or Python unit test to run the testcase.

def disabled(f):
    def _decorator():
        print f.__name__ + ' has been disabled'
    return _decorator

@disabled
def testFoo():
    '''Foo test case'''
    print 'this is foo test case'

testFoo()

Output:

testFoo has been disabled

Solution 3:

Simply placing @unittest.SkipTest decorator above the test is enough.

Solution 4:

The latest version (2.7 - unreleased) supports test skipping/disabling like so. You could just get this module and use it on your existing Python install. It will probably work.

Before this, I used to rename the tests I wanted skipped to xtest_testname from test_testname.

Here's a quick Elisp script to do this. My Elisp is a little rusty, so I apologise in advance for any problems it has. Untested.

  (defun disable_enable_test ()
  (interactive "")
  (save-excursion
    (beginning-of-line)
    (search-forward "def")
    (forward-char)
    (if (looking-at "disable_")
    (zap-to-char 1 ?_)
      (insert "disable_"))))