Introduction¶
Sneeze is a pluggable plugin for the nose unit testing framework that logs test activity to a database at test runtime. It also exposes an interface that allows extension of the DB model and an API modeled on the nose plugin API to extend behavior. Finally, it adds a number of command line options to nosetests to configure the database to connect to and to rerun tests from identifiers from the database. It is intended primarily as a base for additional plugins.
Installation and Quickstart¶
First, install Sneeze (pip install nose-sneeze), then run any tests with nose
using nosetests from the command line as you would normally, but with the
following command line arguments:
--reporting-db-configAn SQLAlchemy formatted connection string (you can use an SQLite database without any additional setup provided you have a standard Python install)--test-cycle-nameA short identifying string for the Test Cycle being run--test-cycle-descriptionA longer description of the Test Cycle being run
Test Cycles are just collections of test results; they are not unique
by name or description, and can contain one or more results for each of any
number of tests. To report tests in an existing Test Cycle, use
--test-cycle-id with the Test Cycle id from the database of
the Test Cycle you wish to add the results of the tests being run to.
Either the Test Cycle name/description pair or the id must be provided;
if an id is provided, it will always supersede any other Test Cycle
configurations. The database config can also be stored more permanently by
setting it on an environment variable named sneeze_db_config.
Be aware that do to nose being in maintenance mode, Sneeze relies on a custom version of nose, nose-for-sneeze. It should work fine with normal nose as long as you don’t attempt to use the multiprocess plugin. Links to relevant fork and pull request here: