nose treats methods as tests even if I supply a tests directory path on the command line

[Monty Hindman]

I work on a project where many of our classes and functions include "test" in their names. As a result, nose confuses them for tests. Here is a fake example:

./

  justice/

    __init__.py

    testimony.py

  tests/

    __init__.py

    testimony_tests.py

I had assumed that simply passing my tests directory on the command line would fix this problem:

$ nosetests --verbosity 2 tests/

NO: this is not a test ... ok

YES: test_bar ... ok

YES: test_foo ... ok

----------------------------------------------------------------------

Ran 3 tests in 0.001s

But when testimony_tests.py imports testimony.py, nose treats methods in that class as potential tests.

Is this intended behavior? It seems counter-intuitive to me (but I haven't thought about it very hard).

I do know about three workarounds:

-- Use the @nottest decorator throughout our project (not convenient for our project and team).

-- Supply full paths, with module names, on the command line (even less convenient).

-- Write our our plugin (fun, but hoping for something less involved).

Aside from those options, is there a simple way to solve this problem?

Thank you.

Example code follows:

################################

# testimony.py

class Testimony(object):

    def blah_test_blah(self):

        'NO: this is not a test'

        pass

# testimony_tests.py

import unittest

from justice.testimony import Testimony

class Testimony_TC(unittest.TestCase):

    def test_bar(self):

        'YES: test_bar'

        pass

    def test_foo(self):

        'YES: test_foo'

        pass

[Björn Pedersen]

Hi,

you need to tune your nose settings:

https://nose.readthedocs.io/en/latest/finding_tests.html explains the logic of finding tests. So setting --testmatch to a suitable regex should help.
For conveniece, I would put set into a nose.cfg file in the project.

From:
https://nose.readthedocs.io/en/latest/usage.html#extended-usage

-m=REGEX, --match=REGEX, --testmatch=REGEX

Files, directories, function names, and class names that match this regular expression are considered tests. Default: (?:\b|_)[Tt]est [NOSE_TESTMATCH]

Björn