How are the tests run?

[rduplain]

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The documentation does not specify how the tests are to be run. Perhaps this should be added.

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• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/danjac/flask-testing/issue/6
• Originally Reported By: Kiran Jonnalagadda
• Originally Created At: 2011-03-09 15:46:07

[rduplain]

Hi,

Is there any documentation about that specific part ?

Best regards,

t00f

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Original Comment By: Christophe Serafin

[rduplain]

Issue #5 was marked as a duplicate of this issue.

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Original Comment By: Kiran Jonnalagadda

[dalanmiller]

I'm wondering the same thing? Shouldn't they be run automatically before app launch if in debug mode?

[fgimian]

You may also use discovery to run tests, please check out my Flask-Script management command example below:

@manager.command
def tests(verbosity=2):
    """Runs all application unit tests"""
    if sys.version_info < (2, 7):
        import unittest2 as unittest
    else:
        import unittest
    project_root = os.path.dirname(os.path.relpath(__file__)) or '.'
    tests = unittest.TestLoader().discover(project_root)
    result = unittest.TextTestRunner(verbosity=verbosity).run(tests)
    exit(int(not result.wasSuccessful()))

If you're using Python 2.6, you'll need to install unittest2 so that the discover function works.

Naturally, you may also place this in a separate run_tests.py script like this:

#!/usr/bin/env python
import sys
import os
if sys.version_info < (2, 7):
    import unittest2 as unittest
else:
    import unittest


def main():
    project_root = os.path.dirname(os.path.relpath(__file__)) or '.'
    tests = unittest.TestLoader().discover(project_root)
    result = unittest.TextTestRunner(verbosity=2).run(tests)
    exit(int(not result.wasSuccessful()))


if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

Ensure that your manage.py or run_tests.py is in the root of your project :smile:

Cheers Fotis