Installing nose using pip, but bash doesn’t recognize command on mac
I got this problem until I setup nose with sudo: sudo pip install nose
nosetests
How to run a single test or single TestCase with django-nose?
Nose supports the following syntax (note : between test script name and test class name): ./manage.py test myapp.tests.test_script:MyTestCase.test_method
List all Tests Found by Nosetest
Version 0.11.1 is currently available. You can get a list of tests without running them as follows: nosetests -v –collect-only
Problems using nose in a virtualenv
You need to have a copy of nose installed in the virtual environment. In order to force installation of nose into the virtualenv, even though it is already installed in the global site-packages, run pip install with the -I flag: (env1)$ pip install nose -I From then on you can just run nosetests as usual.
Excluding abstractproperties from coverage reports
For me the best solution was what @Wesley mentioned in his comment to the accepted answer, specifically replacing ‘pass’ with a docstring for the abstract property, e.g.: class MyAbstractClass(object): __metaclass__ = ABCMeta @abstractproperty def myproperty(self): “”” this property is too abstract to understand. “””
Disabling Python nosetests
Nose already has a builtin decorator for this: from nose.tools import nottest @nottest def test_my_sample_test() #code here … Also check out the other goodies that nose provides: https://nose.readthedocs.org/en/latest/testing_tools.html
pdb.set_trace() causing frozen nosetests, does not drop into debugger
Run nose with the -s / –nocapture option and you’ll be able to see the pdb prompt and interact with the debugger normally. If using the commandline that means:- python manage.py test -s [other-opts-and-args]
How to use nose’s assert_raises?
While the accepted answer is correct, I think there is a better use to assert_raises method. If you simply want to assert that an exception occurs, it’s probably simpler and cleaner to use @raises syntax. @raises(HTTPError) def test_exception_is_raised: call_your_method(p1, p2) However, assume you want to do bit more with the raised exception, for example: we … Read more
How do I specify a single test in a file with nosetests?
You must specify it like so: nosetests <file>:<Test_Case>.<test_method>, or nosetests test_web.py:TestWeb.test_checkout See the docs