Overriding fixtures doesn't work unless conftest.py is in the root

[schireson]

Overriding fixtures doesn't work unless conftest.py is in the root

[DanCardin]

So it uses the root path of the pytest run to determine where to attach the tests. So for some pytest tests invocation, it'd end up attaching inside tests/ and load from tests/conftest.py.

And fwiw, the actual conftest resolution is not handled by pytest-alembic at all, its pure pytest. So I would expect you to see the same fixture resolution behavior for any self-written tests.

Note that if the behavior with the --test-alembic flag doesnt work for you, you can always just import the tests directly in some test module:

# tests/foo/bar/test_some_file.py
from pytest_alembic.tests import test_model_definitions_match_ddl, ...

This would ensure your tests "register" at whatever location you want in the same way a normally defined test would.

I could perhaps imagine supporting some additional option which lets you customize the path --test-alembic to attach to a particular location, but I decided not to do that initially because it was fraught with other issues that made the tests resolution unreliable. But if the above doesn't work for you and If you have a compelling usecase, we can talk about what that might look like.

[devanubis]

Ah OK, turns out if I set testpaths in my pytest settings to my src/ directory everything works a treat without polluting the project root.

Thanks for the help!