Ian

The following is still useful after more than a year. Thanks !!

I made some modifications - mostly my specific paths before calling 
run_pytest, and my run_test.py is in scripts folder rather than bin.

I'm getting an error :

NameError: name 'db' is not defined

I'm running it as :

python web2py.py -S myapp -M -R applications/myapp/scripts/run_tests.py

Any ideas ?

-Mandar




On Monday, December 17, 2012 10:11:13 PM UTC+5:30, Ian W. Scott wrote:
>
> 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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