How do I run a single test with Nose in Pylons
I have a Pylons 1.0 app with a bunch of tests in the test/functional directory. I'm getting weird test results and I want to just run a single test. The nose documentation says I should be able to pass in a test name at the command line but I get ImportErrors no matter what I do
For example:
nosetests -x -s sometestname
Gives:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/ben/.virtualenvs/tsq/lib/python2.6/site-packages/nose-0.11.4-py2.6.egg/nose/loader.py", line 371, in loadTestsFromName
module = resolve_name(addr.module)
File "/home/ben/.virtualenvs/tsq/lib/python2.6/site-packages/nose-0.11.4-py2.6.egg/nose/util.py", line 334, in resolve_name
module = __import__('.'.join(parts_copy))
ImportError: No module named sometestname
I get the same error for
nosetests -x -s appname.tests.functional.testcontroller
What is the correct syntax?
nosetests appname.tests.functional.test_controller
should work, where the file is named test_controller.py
.
To run a specific test class and method use a path of the form module.path:ClassNameInFile.method_name
, that is, with a colon separating the module/file path and the objects within the file. module.path
is the relative path to the file (e.g. tests/my_tests.py:ClassNameInFile.method_name
).
For me using Nosetests 1.3.0 these variants are working (but make sure you have __init__.py
in your tests folder):
nosetests [options] tests.ui_tests
nosetests [options] tests/ui_tests.py
nosetests [options] tests.ui_tests:TestUI.test_admin_page
Note that single colon between module name and class name.
I have to add the ".py" file extension, that is,
r'/path_to/my_file.py:' + r'test_func_xy'
Maybe this is because I don't have any classes in the file.
Without the .py
, nose was complaining:
Can't find callable test_func_xy in file /path_to/my_file: file is not a python module
And this although I have an __init__.py
in the folder /path_to/
.