Passing arguments explicitly

In most of the examples here, we set up sys.argv. In normal usage, the testrunner just uses sys.argv. It is possible to pass arguments explicitly.

>>> import os.path
>>> directory_with_tests = os.path.join(this_directory, 'testrunner-ex')
>>> defaults = [
...     '--path', directory_with_tests,
...     '--tests-pattern', '^sampletestsf?$',
...     ]
>>> from zope import testrunner
>>> testrunner.run_internal(defaults, 'test --layer 111'.split())
Running samplelayers.Layer111 tests:
  Set up samplelayers.Layerx in N.NNN seconds.
  Set up samplelayers.Layer1 in N.NNN seconds.
  Set up samplelayers.Layer11 in N.NNN seconds.
  Set up samplelayers.Layer111 in N.NNN seconds.
  Ran 26 tests with 0 failures, 0 errors and 0 skipped in N.NNN seconds.
Tearing down left over layers:
  Tear down samplelayers.Layer111 in N.NNN seconds.
  Tear down samplelayers.Layerx in N.NNN seconds.
  Tear down samplelayers.Layer11 in N.NNN seconds.
  Tear down samplelayers.Layer1 in N.NNN seconds.
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If options already have default values, then passing a different default will override.

For example, –list-tests defaults to being turned off, but if we pass in a different default, that one takes effect.

>>> defaults = [
...     '--list-tests',
...     '--path', directory_with_tests,
...     '--tests-pattern', '^sampletestsf?$',
...     ]
>>> from zope import testrunner
>>> testrunner.run_internal(defaults, 'test --layer 111'.split())
Listing samplelayers.Layer111 tests:
  test_x1 (sample1.sampletests.test111.TestA...)
  test_y0 (sample1.sampletests.test111.TestA...)
  test_z0 (sample1.sampletests.test111.TestA...)
  test_x0 (sample1.sampletests.test111.TestB...)
  test_y1 (sample1.sampletests.test111.TestB...)
  test_z0 (sample1.sampletests.test111.TestB...)
  test_1 (sample1.sampletests.test111.TestNotMuch...)
  test_2 (sample1.sampletests.test111.TestNotMuch...)
  test_3 (sample1.sampletests.test111.TestNotMuch...)
  test_x0 (sample1.sampletests.test111)
  test_y0 (sample1.sampletests.test111)
  test_z1 (sample1.sampletests.test111)
  /home/benji/workspace/zope.testrunner/1/src/zope/testing/testrunner/testrunner-ex/sample1/sampletests/../../sampletestsl.rst
  test_x1 (sampletests.test111.TestA...)
  test_y0 (sampletests.test111.TestA...)
  test_z0 (sampletests.test111.TestA...)
  test_x0 (sampletests.test111.TestB...)
  test_y1 (sampletests.test111.TestB...)
  test_z0 (sampletests.test111.TestB...)
  test_1 (sampletests.test111.TestNotMuch...)
  test_2 (sampletests.test111.TestNotMuch...)
  test_3 (sampletests.test111.TestNotMuch...)
  test_x0 (sampletests.test111)
  test_y0 (sampletests.test111)
  test_z1 (sampletests.test111)
  /home/benji/workspace/zope.testrunner/1/src/zope/testing/testrunner/testrunner-ex/sampletests/../sampletestsl.rst
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