pytest-bg-process 0.0.1

A simple plugin to use with pytest

pytest-bg-process

Pytest plugin to initialize background process.

The process will start once before all the tests using subprocess.Popen and will be killed once all the tests finished.

Installation

pip install pytest-bg-process

Configuration

From pytest configuration:

• background-cmd:
  • Path to command to run at background
  • Default: None
• background-cmd-env:
  • Environmental variable to path to command to run at background.
  • Has higher priority than background-cmd.
  • Default: None
• background-pid:
  • Path to save PID data of the background process.
  • Default: background.pid
• background-log:
  • Path to save log data of the background process.
  • Default: background.log

Example

Using background-cmd

[pytest]
background-cmd=redis-server
background-pid=redis.pid
background-log=redis.log

Using background-cmd-env

[pytest]
background-cmd-env=REDIS_CMD
background-pid=redis.pid
background-log=redis.log

then

REDIS_CMD=redis-server && pytest