How do I tell django-nose where my tests are?

I have my tests for a Django application in a tests directory:

my_project/apps/my_app/
├── __init__.py
├── tests
│   ├── __init__.py
│   ├── field_tests.py
│   └── storage_tests.py
├── urls.py
├── utils.py
└── views.py

The Django test runner requires that I put a suite() function in the __init__.py file of my application’s tests directory. That function returns the test cases that will run when I do $ python manage.py test my_app

I installed django-nose. When I try to run the tests with django-nose, 0 tests are run: $ python manage.py test my_app

If I point directly at the test module, the tests are run: $ python manage.py test my_project.apps.my_app.tests.storage_tests

Why does django-nose’s test runner not find my tests? What must I do?

[ke1g]

It is worth trying setting the environment variable NOSE_INCLUDE_EXE to a non-empty string.

While (at least currently) this is set by default on win32 and cli, and on *nix systems the tests.py file should get made without execute permissions, it is possible that if a site were created on a Windows box and copied to something else, you could wind up with the execute bits set (I’ve seen that - don’t remember the details). Setting execute permissions on tests.py on a linux system certainly prevents the test from running, and using:

export NOSE_INCLUDE_EXE=1

makes it run again. If the OP is still having the problem, could he please try this?

[mpurdon]

export NOSE_INCLUDE_EXE=1 worked for me. In addition, I wasn’t aware that there was a level 3 (level 2 appeared to make no difference) to the verbosity so once I tried running the tests I was able to see several .py is executable; skipped results.

Thanks everyone