'nosetests' was unable to collect test files from directory

Question

I am having a hierarchy of directories and inside every directory there is one 'test/' directory which has all the test files. nosetests is not able to collect these test files somehow. I have followed naming convention used for filenames and class names as well. All the classes defined in those files are subclass of unittest:TestCase. Still no luck. What must be the problem ?

Answer 1

If you carefully see the python nose usage, you will get it

--exe Look for tests in python modules that are executable. Normal behavior is to exclude executable modules,

Thanks.

Answer 2

I am only answering my question. It is really very strange. I found that the test files previously were in executable mode. And as soon as i changed there modes, it started working like a charm. :-) chmod -x *_test.py worked for me. Can anybody explain this behaviour of nosetests ???