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Zdenek Maxa
Zdenek Maxa

Reputation: 1399

py.test reporting on skipped tests

I am using py.test -rfs to get additional reports on failed and skipped tests.

There are two ways by which a test gets skipped:

  1. by calling pytest.skip(msg) from inside of a test case
  2. by decorating a test case: @pytest.mark.skipif(condition, msg)

In the final report, if I use pytest.skip() I get lines int the following form:

path/testmodule:linenumber: message`

The name of the test case (which is not there) would be great but this way it's certainly good enough.

But when I use pytest.mark.skipif(), what I get is this:

SKIP [1] /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/_pytest/skipping.py:132: message

Not even the test module name. The path to always the same line from inside py.test ifself is not really helpful.

I certainly could put the name of the test case into the message but if there is a more elegant way of getting the report better, it would be great. Does anyone know of that?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2187

Answers (1)

Andrea Corbellini
Andrea Corbellini

Reputation: 17751

Instead of -rfs, you should use -v:

$ py.test -v t.py 
============================= test session starts ==============================
platform linux2 -- Python 2.7.8 -- py-1.4.23 -- pytest-2.6.0 -- /usr/bin/python
collected 2 items 

t.py@3::test_1 SKIPPED
t.py@7::test_2 SKIPPED

========================== 2 skipped in 0.01 seconds ==========================

The above output comes from the following file:

import pytest

def test_1():
    pytest.skip('msg')


@pytest.mark.skipif(True, reason='msg')
def test_2():
    pass

Upvotes: 4

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