Python - Nose Not Discovering Package Level Tests In Django

I'm setting up a directory structure for my Django app to separate functional and unit tests. I am using nose as the test runner for my Django project. At the root of the Django pr

Solution 1:

This all depends on what kind of code is in tests/unit/__init__.py

When you say

nosetests tests.unit

You are pointing to unit/__init__.py not the directory unit/ thus if you had no tests in your __init__.py module then nothing would be run. So it is understandable when you say you used the directory path and then your tests started working.

You mention

What am I missing? My main issue is that I have a setup function in tests.unit.init.py that should be called for creating the data in the test DB for the upcoming tests.

It is likely that although you have a setup function in __init__.py you may have not ever imported your test functions into __init__.py

One quick fix to this would be to add this line in __init__.py

from tests.unit.tests import *

That said it is really not very wise to be putting any code in __init__.py at all and if you have code that returns some kind of configuration data I would recommend creating a new library module with functions that will return configuration data to your tests