Selecting Tests By Package, Module, and Level

We’ve already seen that we can select tests by layer. There are three other ways we can select tests: by package, by module and test, and by level.

Packages

We can select tests by package:

>>> import os.path, sys
>>> directory_with_tests = os.path.join(this_directory, 'testrunner-ex')
>>> defaults = [
...     '--path', directory_with_tests,
...     '--tests-pattern', '^sampletestsf?$',
...     ]
>>> sys.argv = 'test --layer 122 -ssample1 -vv'.split()
>>> from zope import testrunner
>>> testrunner.run_internal(defaults)
Running tests at level 1
Running samplelayers.Layer122 tests:
  Set up samplelayers.Layer1 in 0.000 seconds.
  Set up samplelayers.Layer12 in 0.000 seconds.
  Set up samplelayers.Layer122 in 0.000 seconds.
  Running:
    test_x1 (sample1.sampletests.test122.TestA...)
    test_y0 (sample1.sampletests.test122.TestA...)
    test_z0 (sample1.sampletests.test122.TestA...)
    test_x0 (sample1.sampletests.test122.TestB...)
    test_y1 (sample1.sampletests.test122.TestB...)
    test_z0 (sample1.sampletests.test122.TestB...)
    test_1 (sample1.sampletests.test122.TestNotMuch...)
    test_2 (sample1.sampletests.test122.TestNotMuch...)
    test_3 (sample1.sampletests.test122.TestNotMuch...)
    test_x0 (sample1.sampletests.test122)
    test_y0 (sample1.sampletests.test122)
    test_z1 (sample1.sampletests.test122)
    testrunner-ex/sample1/sampletests/../../sampletestsl.rst
  Ran 13 tests with 0 failures, 0 errors and 0 skipped in 0.005 seconds.
Tearing down left over layers:
  Tear down samplelayers.Layer122 in 0.000 seconds.
  Tear down samplelayers.Layer12 in 0.000 seconds.
  Tear down samplelayers.Layer1 in 0.000 seconds.
False

You can specify multiple packages:

>>> sys.argv = 'test -u  -vv -ssample1 -ssample2'.split()
>>> testrunner.run_internal(defaults)
Running tests at level 1
Running zope.testrunner.layer.UnitTests tests:
  Set up zope.testrunner.layer.UnitTests in N.NNN seconds.
  Running:
 test_x1 (sample1.sampletestsf.TestA...)
 test_y0 (sample1.sampletestsf.TestA...)
 test_z0 (sample1.sampletestsf.TestA...)
 test_x0 (sample1.sampletestsf.TestB...)
 test_y1 (sample1.sampletestsf.TestB...)
 test_z0 (sample1.sampletestsf.TestB...)
 test_1 (sample1.sampletestsf.TestNotMuch...)
 test_2 (sample1.sampletestsf.TestNotMuch...)
 test_3 (sample1.sampletestsf.TestNotMuch...)
 test_x0 (sample1.sampletestsf)
 test_y0 (sample1.sampletestsf)
 test_z1 (sample1.sampletestsf)
 testrunner-ex/sample1/../sampletests.rst
 test_x1 (sample1.sample11.sampletests.TestA...)
 test_y0 (sample1.sample11.sampletests.TestA...)
 test_z0 (sample1.sample11.sampletests.TestA...)
 test_x0 (sample1.sample11.sampletests.TestB...)
 test_y1 (sample1.sample11.sampletests.TestB...)
 test_z0 (sample1.sample11.sampletests.TestB...)
 test_1 (sample1.sample11.sampletests.TestNotMuch...)
 test_2 (sample1.sample11.sampletests.TestNotMuch...)
 test_3 (sample1.sample11.sampletests.TestNotMuch...)
 test_x0 (sample1.sample11.sampletests)
 test_y0 (sample1.sample11.sampletests)
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 test_x1 (sample1.sample13.sampletests.TestA...)
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 test_3 (sample2.sampletests.test_1.TestNotMuch...)
 test_x0 (sample2.sampletests.test_1)
 test_y0 (sample2.sampletests.test_1)
 test_z1 (sample2.sampletests.test_1)
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 test_x1 (sample2.sampletests.testone.TestA...)
 test_y0 (sample2.sampletests.testone.TestA...)
 test_z0 (sample2.sampletests.testone.TestA...)
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 test_x0 (sample2.sampletests.testone)
 test_y0 (sample2.sampletests.testone)
 test_z1 (sample2.sampletests.testone)
 testrunner-ex/sample2/sampletests/../../sampletests.rst
  Ran 104 tests with 0 failures, 0 errors and 0 skipped in N.NNN seconds.
Tearing down left over layers:
  Tear down zope.testrunner.layer.UnitTests in N.NNN seconds.
False

Directory Names

You can specify directory names instead of packages (useful for tab-completion):

>>> subdir = os.path.join(directory_with_tests, 'sample1')
>>> sys.argv = ['test', '--layer', '122', '-s', subdir, '-vv']
>>> from zope import testrunner
>>> testrunner.run_internal(defaults)
Running tests at level 1
Running samplelayers.Layer122 tests:
  Set up samplelayers.Layer1 in 0.000 seconds.
  Set up samplelayers.Layer12 in 0.000 seconds.
  Set up samplelayers.Layer122 in 0.000 seconds.
  Running:
    test_x1 (sample1.sampletests.test122.TestA...)
    test_y0 (sample1.sampletests.test122.TestA...)
    test_z0 (sample1.sampletests.test122.TestA...)
    test_x0 (sample1.sampletests.test122.TestB...)
    test_y1 (sample1.sampletests.test122.TestB...)
    test_z0 (sample1.sampletests.test122.TestB...)
    test_1 (sample1.sampletests.test122.TestNotMuch...)
    test_2 (sample1.sampletests.test122.TestNotMuch...)
    test_3 (sample1.sampletests.test122.TestNotMuch...)
    test_x0 (sample1.sampletests.test122)
    test_y0 (sample1.sampletests.test122)
    test_z1 (sample1.sampletests.test122)
    testrunner-ex/sample1/sampletests/../../sampletestsl.rst
  Ran 13 tests with 0 failures, 0 errors and 0 skipped in 0.005 seconds.
Tearing down left over layers:
  Tear down samplelayers.Layer122 in 0.000 seconds.
  Tear down samplelayers.Layer12 in 0.000 seconds.
  Tear down samplelayers.Layer1 in 0.000 seconds.
False

Modules And Tests

We can select by test module name using the –module (-m) option:

>>> sys.argv = 'test -u  -vv -ssample1 -m_one -mtest1'.split()
>>> testrunner.run_internal(defaults)
Running tests at level 1
Running zope.testrunner.layer.UnitTests tests:
  Set up zope.testrunner.layer.UnitTests in N.NNN seconds.
  Running:
 test_x1 (sample1.sampletests.test1.TestA...)
 test_y0 (sample1.sampletests.test1.TestA...)
 test_z0 (sample1.sampletests.test1.TestA...)
 test_x0 (sample1.sampletests.test1.TestB...)
 test_y1 (sample1.sampletests.test1.TestB...)
 test_z0 (sample1.sampletests.test1.TestB...)
 test_1 (sample1.sampletests.test1.TestNotMuch...)
 test_2 (sample1.sampletests.test1.TestNotMuch...)
 test_3 (sample1.sampletests.test1.TestNotMuch...)
 test_x0 (sample1.sampletests.test1)
 test_y0 (sample1.sampletests.test1)
 test_z1 (sample1.sampletests.test1)
 testrunner-ex/sample1/sampletests/../../sampletests.rst
 test_x1 (sample1.sampletests.test_one.TestA...)
 test_y0 (sample1.sampletests.test_one.TestA...)
 test_z0 (sample1.sampletests.test_one.TestA...)
 test_x0 (sample1.sampletests.test_one.TestB...)
 test_y1 (sample1.sampletests.test_one.TestB...)
 test_z0 (sample1.sampletests.test_one.TestB...)
 test_1 (sample1.sampletests.test_one.TestNotMuch...)
 test_2 (sample1.sampletests.test_one.TestNotMuch...)
 test_3 (sample1.sampletests.test_one.TestNotMuch...)
 test_x0 (sample1.sampletests.test_one)
 test_y0 (sample1.sampletests.test_one)
 test_z1 (sample1.sampletests.test_one)
 testrunner-ex/sample1/sampletests/../../sampletests.rst
  Ran 26 tests with 0 failures, 0 errors and 0 skipped in N.NNN seconds.
Tearing down left over layers:
  Tear down zope.testrunner.layer.UnitTests in N.NNN seconds.
False

and by test within the module using the –test (-t) option:

>>> sys.argv = 'test -u  -vv -ssample1 -m_one -mtest1 -t_x0 -t_y0'.split()
>>> testrunner.run_internal(defaults)
Running tests at level 1
Running zope.testrunner.layer.UnitTests tests:
  Set up zope.testrunner.layer.UnitTests in N.NNN seconds.
  Running:
 test_y0 (sample1.sampletests.test1.TestA...)
 test_x0 (sample1.sampletests.test1.TestB...)
 test_x0 (sample1.sampletests.test1)
 test_y0 (sample1.sampletests.test1)
 test_y0 (sample1.sampletests.test_one.TestA...)
 test_x0 (sample1.sampletests.test_one.TestB...)
 test_x0 (sample1.sampletests.test_one)
 test_y0 (sample1.sampletests.test_one)
  Ran 8 tests with 0 failures, 0 errors and 0 skipped in N.NNN seconds.
Tearing down left over layers:
  Tear down zope.testrunner.layer.UnitTests in N.NNN seconds.
False
>>> sys.argv = 'test -u  -vv -ssample1 -trst'.split()
>>> testrunner.run_internal(defaults)
Running tests at level 1
Running zope.testrunner.layer.UnitTests tests:
  Set up zope.testrunner.layer.UnitTests in N.NNN seconds.
  Running:
 testrunner-ex/sample1/../sampletests.rst
 testrunner-ex/sample1/sample11/../../sampletests.rst
 testrunner-ex/sample1/sample13/../../sampletests.rst
 testrunner-ex/sample1/sampletests/../../sampletests.rst
 testrunner-ex/sample1/sampletests/../../sampletests.rst
  Ran 5 tests with 0 failures, 0 errors and 0 skipped in N.NNN seconds.
Tearing down left over layers:
  Tear down zope.testrunner.layer.UnitTests in N.NNN seconds.
False

Regular Expressions

The --module and --test options take regular expressions. If the regular expressions specified begin with !, then tests that don’t match the regular expression are selected:

>>> sys.argv = 'test -u  -vv -ssample1 -m!sample1[.]sample1'.split()
>>> testrunner.run_internal(defaults)
Running tests at level 1
Running zope.testrunner.layer.UnitTests tests:
  Set up zope.testrunner.layer.UnitTests in N.NNN seconds.
  Running:
 test_x1 (sample1.sampletestsf.TestA...)
 test_y0 (sample1.sampletestsf.TestA...)
 test_z0 (sample1.sampletestsf.TestA...)
 test_x0 (sample1.sampletestsf.TestB...)
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 testrunner-ex/sample1/sampletests/../../sampletests.rst
  Ran 39 tests with 0 failures, 0 errors and 0 skipped in N.NNN seconds.
Tearing down left over layers:
  Tear down zope.testrunner.layer.UnitTests in N.NNN seconds.
False

Positional Arguments

Module and test filters can also be given as positional arguments:

>>> sys.argv = 'test -u  -vv -ssample1 !sample1[.]sample1'.split()
>>> testrunner.run_internal(defaults)
Running tests at level 1
Running zope.testrunner.layer.UnitTests tests:
  Set up zope.testrunner.layer.UnitTests in N.NNN seconds.
  Running:
 test_x1 (sample1.sampletestsf.TestA...)
 test_y0 (sample1.sampletestsf.TestA...)
 test_z0 (sample1.sampletestsf.TestA...)
 test_x0 (sample1.sampletestsf.TestB...)
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  Ran 39 tests with 0 failures, 0 errors and 0 skipped in N.NNN seconds.
Tearing down left over layers:
  Tear down zope.testrunner.layer.UnitTests in N.NNN seconds.
False
>>> sys.argv = 'test -u  -vv -ssample1 . rst'.split()
>>> testrunner.run_internal(defaults)
Running tests at level 1
Running zope.testrunner.layer.UnitTests tests:
  Set up zope.testrunner.layer.UnitTests in N.NNN seconds.
  Running:
 testrunner-ex/sample1/../sampletests.rst
 testrunner-ex/sample1/sample11/../../sampletests.rst
 testrunner-ex/sample1/sample13/../../sampletests.rst
 testrunner-ex/sample1/sampletests/../../sampletests.rst
 testrunner-ex/sample1/sampletests/../../sampletests.rst
  Ran 5 tests with 0 failures, 0 errors and 0 skipped in N.NNN seconds.
Tearing down left over layers:
  Tear down zope.testrunner.layer.UnitTests in N.NNN seconds.
False

Levels

Sometimes there are tests that you don’t want to run by default. For example, you might have tests that take a long time. Tests can have a level attribute. If no level is specified, a level of 1 is assumed and, by default, only tests at level one are run. to run tests at a higher level, use the --at-level (-a) option to specify a higher level. For example, with the following options:

>>> sys.argv = 'test -u  -vv -t test_y1 -t test_y0'.split()
>>> testrunner.run_internal(defaults)
Running tests at level 1
Running zope.testrunner.layer.UnitTests tests:
  Set up zope.testrunner.layer.UnitTests in N.NNN seconds.
  Running:
 test_y0 (sampletestsf.TestA...)
 test_y1 (sampletestsf.TestB...)
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 test_y0 (sample1.sampletestsf.TestA...)
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 test_y0 (sampletests.test1)
 test_y0 (sampletests.test_one.TestA...)
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 test_y0 (sampletests.test_one)
  Ran 36 tests with 0 failures, 0 errors and 0 skipped in N.NNN seconds.
Tearing down left over layers:
  Tear down zope.testrunner.layer.UnitTests in N.NNN seconds.
False

We get run 36 tests. If we specify a level of 2, we get some additional tests:

>>> sys.argv = 'test -u  -vv -a 2 -t test_y1 -t test_y0'.split()
>>> testrunner.run_internal(defaults)
Running tests at level 2
Running zope.testrunner.layer.UnitTests tests:
  Set up zope.testrunner.layer.UnitTests in N.NNN seconds.
  Running:
 test_y0 (sampletestsf.TestA...)
 test_y0 (sampletestsf.TestA2...)
 test_y1 (sampletestsf.TestB...)
 test_y0 (sampletestsf)
 test_y0 (sample1.sampletestsf.TestA...)
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 test_y0 (sampletests.test1)
 test_y0 (sampletests.test_one.TestA...)
 test_y1 (sampletests.test_one.TestB...)
 test_y0 (sampletests.test_one)
  Ran 38 tests with 0 failures, 0 errors and 0 skipped in N.NNN seconds.
Tearing down left over layers:
  Tear down zope.testrunner.layer.UnitTests in N.NNN seconds.
False

We can use the –all option to run tests at all levels:

>>> sys.argv = 'test -u  -vv --all -t test_y1 -t test_y0'.split()
>>> testrunner.run_internal(defaults)
Running tests at all levels
Running zope.testrunner.layer.UnitTests tests:
  Set up zope.testrunner.layer.UnitTests in N.NNN seconds.
  Running:
 test_y0 (sampletestsf.TestA...)
 test_y0 (sampletestsf.TestA2...)
 test_y1 (sampletestsf.TestB...)
 test_y0 (sampletestsf)
 test_y0 (sample1.sampletestsf.TestA...)
 test_y1 (sample1.sampletestsf.TestB...)
 test_y0 (sample1.sampletestsf)
 test_y0 (sample1.sample11.sampletests.TestA...)
 test_y0 (sample1.sample11.sampletests.TestA3...)
 test_y1 (sample1.sample11.sampletests.TestB...)
 test_y1 (sample1.sample11.sampletests.TestB2...)
 test_y0 (sample1.sample11.sampletests)
 test_y0 (sample1.sample13.sampletests.TestA...)
 test_y1 (sample1.sample13.sampletests.TestB...)
 test_y0 (sample1.sample13.sampletests)
 test_y0 (sample1.sampletests.test1.TestA...)
 test_y1 (sample1.sampletests.test1.TestB...)
 test_y0 (sample1.sampletests.test1)
 test_y0 (sample1.sampletests.test_one.TestA...)
 test_y1 (sample1.sampletests.test_one.TestB...)
 test_y0 (sample1.sampletests.test_one)
 test_y0 (sample2.sample21.sampletests.TestA...)
 test_y1 (sample2.sample21.sampletests.TestB...)
 test_y0 (sample2.sample21.sampletests)
 test_y0 (sample2.sampletests.test_1.TestA...)
 test_y1 (sample2.sampletests.test_1.TestB...)
 test_y0 (sample2.sampletests.test_1)
 test_y0 (sample2.sampletests.testone.TestA...)
 test_y1 (sample2.sampletests.testone.TestB...)
 test_y0 (sample2.sampletests.testone)
 test_y0 (sample3.sampletests.TestA...)
 test_y1 (sample3.sampletests.TestB...)
 test_y0 (sample3.sampletests)
 test_y0 (sampletests.test1.TestA...)
 test_y1 (sampletests.test1.TestB...)
 test_y0 (sampletests.test1)
 test_y0 (sampletests.test_one.TestA...)
 test_y1 (sampletests.test_one.TestB...)
 test_y0 (sampletests.test_one)
  Ran 39 tests with 0 failures, 0 errors and 0 skipped in N.NNN seconds.
Tearing down left over layers:
  Tear down zope.testrunner.layer.UnitTests in N.NNN seconds.
False

Listing Selected Tests

When you’re trying to figure out why the test you want is not matched by the pattern you specified, it is convenient to see which tests match your specifications.

>>> sys.argv = 'test --all -m sample1 -t test_y0 --list-tests'.split()
>>> testrunner.run_internal(defaults)
Listing zope.testrunner.layer.UnitTests tests:
  test_y0 (sample1.sampletestsf.TestA...)
  test_y0 (sample1.sampletestsf)
  test_y0 (sample1.sample11.sampletests.TestA...)
  test_y0 (sample1.sample11.sampletests.TestA3...)
  test_y0 (sample1.sample11.sampletests)
  test_y0 (sample1.sample13.sampletests.TestA...)
  test_y0 (sample1.sample13.sampletests)
  test_y0 (sample1.sampletests.test1.TestA...)
  test_y0 (sample1.sampletests.test1)
  test_y0 (sample1.sampletests.test_one.TestA...)
  test_y0 (sample1.sampletests.test_one)
Listing samplelayers.Layer11 tests:
  test_y0 (sample1.sampletests.test11.TestA...)
  test_y0 (sample1.sampletests.test11)
Listing samplelayers.Layer111 tests:
  test_y0 (sample1.sampletests.test111.TestA...)
  test_y0 (sample1.sampletests.test111)
Listing samplelayers.Layer112 tests:
  test_y0 (sample1.sampletests.test112.TestA...)
  test_y0 (sample1.sampletests.test112)
Listing samplelayers.Layer12 tests:
  test_y0 (sample1.sampletests.test12.TestA...)
  test_y0 (sample1.sampletests.test12)
Listing samplelayers.Layer121 tests:
  test_y0 (sample1.sampletests.test121.TestA...)
  test_y0 (sample1.sampletests.test121)
Listing samplelayers.Layer122 tests:
  test_y0 (sample1.sampletests.test122.TestA...)
  test_y0 (sample1.sampletests.test122)
False