Nose test command line tricks

If you are using nose plugin to run your tests , there are some handy tricks that we can use while running tests.

Run test and generate a XML report:

nosetests --with-xunit test_folder --xunit-file=nosetests_test_results.xml

Run test but only to collect the details. Do not run the actual test.

• nosetests --collect-only test_folder
• nosetests -v --collect-only test_folder
• nosetests -v --collect-only test_folder --with-xunit

Run all test under a particular class from a test script.

nosetests test_folder\test_myfile.py:MyTestClass

Run a single test in a test script

nosetests test_folder\test_myfile.py:MyTestClass.test_some_case

Exclude some tests based on regular expressions

Use the argument "--exclude" for this. You can use basic rules of regex.

nosetests --collect-only test_o3d\test_xmlrpc --exclude=test_.*Pin