Is it possible to run tests using green programmatically?

[cleancut]

Is it possible to run tests using green programmatically?

[CleanCut]

Yes!

If you will tell me where in your process you want to launch them from, I can point you in the right direction. For example, is it from a Makefile? From bash? From another python script? From the test file itself?

[CleanCut]

I'm going to go ahead and close this issue, but feel free to reply if you would like help from me. I'll still get notified even though it's closed.

[laike9m]

tests = unittest.TestLoader().discover(
            os.path.join(setup_dir, 'tests'), pattern='*.py')
unittest.TextTestRunner().run(tests)

How to run this code using green?

[kxepal]

What's the point of using green in this place? unittest does discovery and testing well.

[laike9m]

@kxepal Quote from green's readme:

Green grew out of a desire to see pretty colors.

People use green for better discovering or testing? Of course not. If what I need is not prettier output, why do I use green?

[CleanCut]

@laike9m I believe something like this should work:

from green.suite import GreenTestSuite
from green.runner import run
from green.config import default_args
# If you want to change options, modify default_args here
# default_args.verbose = 3   # etc.
tests = unittest.TestLoader().discover(
            os.path.join(setup_dir, 'tests'), pattern='*.py')
run(GreenTestSuite(tests), sys.stdout, default_args)

[laike9m]

Thx CleanCut, I'll try.

[laike9m]

@CleanCut Works as expected. Thx again! Why don't you put it into documentation?

[CleanCut]

Well, if I'm going to officially support it, I'd rather add a new feature so it goes something more like:

from green import runTestSuite
tests = (however you want to manually load tests)
runTestSuite(tests)