A goody-bag of nifty plugins for pytest

OS	Build	Coverage

Plugin	Description	Supported OS
pytest-server-fixtures	Extensible server-running framework with a suite of well-known databases and webservices included
pytest-shutil	Unix shell and environment management tools
pytest-profiling	Profiling plugin with tabular heat graph output and gprof support for C-Extensions
pytest-devpi-server	DevPI server fixture
pytest-pyramid-server	Pyramid server fixture
pytest-webdriver	Selenium webdriver fixture
pytest-virtualenv	Virtualenv fixture
pytest-qt-app	PyQT application fixture
pytest-listener	TCP Listener/Reciever for testing remote systems
pytest-git	Git repository fixture
pytest-svn	SVN repository fixture
pytest-fixture-config	Configuration tools for Py.test fixtures
pytest-verbose-parametrize	Makes py.test's parametrize output a little more verbose

Developing these plugins

All of these plugins share setup code and configuration so there is a top-level Makefile to automate process of setting them up for test and development.

Pre-requisites

You have python installed on your path, preferably using a virtualenv

Makefile targets

To install all dependencies and set up all of the packages for development simply run:

    make develop

To install all the packages as wheel distributions:

    make install

To run all the tests:

    make test

Vagrant

Some of the plugins have complex dependencies, particularly pytest-server-fixtures. To make it easier to develop, there is a Vagrantfile which will setup a virtual machine with all the dependencies installed to run the tests.

To set up the environment in Vagrant (requires virtualbox) and run the tests:

    $ vagrant up
    $ vagrant ssh

    # ..... inside vagrant ....
    . venv/bin/activate
    cd src
    make develop
    make test

foreach.sh

To run a command in each of the package directories, use the foreach.sh script. This example will build all the wheel distributions:

    ./foreach.sh python setup.py bdist_wheel

Only-Changed mode

To run a command only on packages that have changed since the last tagged release, use --changed. This example will only upload packages that need releasing:

    ./foreach.sh python setup.py bdist_wheel upload

Quiet mode

To run a command with no extra output other than from what you run, use --quiet

    ./foreach.sh --quiet grep PY3