pytest-pvcr 0.1.1

PyTest Process VCR

pytest-pvcr

A pytest plugin that records and replays commands executed with subprocess.run().

This plugin was inspired by VCR.py.

Installation

This project can be installed via pip:

pip install pytest-pvcr

Usage

import subprocess
import pytest

@pytest.mark.pvcr()
def test_command():
    # subprocess.run is patched at runtime
    ret = subprocess.run(["ls", "/tmp"])

    assert rc.returncode == 0

@pytest.mark.pvcr(wait=False)
def test_command():
    # Super long command but since wait == False, PVCR does not wait its completion
    ret = subprocess.run(["sleep", "1000"])

    assert rc.returncode == 0

Run your tests:

pytest --pvcr-record-mode=new test_commands.py

Record modes

There is three record modes:

# Only record new commands not previously recorded
pytest --pvcr-record-mode=new test_commands.py

# Record nothing
pytest --pvcr-record-mode=none test_commands.py

# Record all commands, even previously recorded ones
pytest --pvcr-record-mode=all test_commands.py

Block execution

The execution of processes can be completely blocked. This is useful to protect test environments from destructive commands.

pytest --pvcr-block-run test_commands.py

The test will fail if an unrecorded command is executed.

Fuzzy matching

Commands can be fuzzy matched by defining one or more regex.

If a fuzzy regex has matching groups, the matched parts are kept for matching the commands.

If a fuzzy regex has no matching groups, the whole matched string is ignored when matching the commands.

# Ignore `--dry-run` arguments when matching commands
pytest --pvcr-fuzzy-matcher='--dry-run' test_commands.py

# Ignore the beginning of a path and keep the filename
pytest --pvcr-fuzzy-matcher='^.+\/(kubeconfig)$' test_commands.py

It's possible to automatically ignore the parent path of the test script. This parameter is useful to make test assets portable.

pytest --pvcr-auto-fuzzy-match test_commands.py

Python support

This plugin supports python >= 3.12

Authors

• Fabien Dupont [e-mail]