How to run test suite in python setup.py

Question

I am trying to setup a Python package using setup.py. My directory structure looks like this:

setup.py
baxter/
  __init__.py
  baxter.py
tests/
  test_baxter.py

Here is setup.py:

from setuptools import setup, find_packages
setup(name='baxter',
      version='1.0',
      packages=find_packages()
      )

I first do a python setup.py build. When I then run python setup.py test I immediately get this result:

running test

and nothing else. The unit tests have not run since the tests take at least 15 seconds to finish and the message running test comes back right away.

So it appears that python setup.py test is not finding the unit tests. What am I doing wrong?

Anon

Fun thing - I'm not sure if that's correct, but i have tests_require=['pytest'] in my setup(), and another difference: my tests is under the package directory. And it works without any extra configuration. O, wait, in setup.cfg, I've got [aliases] test = pytest. Try moving tests to baxter/tests, maybe. – Leonidaleonidas

Answer 1

Pretty simple, add the following to your setup() call:

test_suite="tests",   

Cheetah

Where tests is the name of the directory containing the test suite. The system automatically finds the test cases. – Eulogia

Errata: not of the directory, but of the package. – Eulogia

This didn't work for me. Is this still applicable for at this time (2018) for Python 3? – Kepi