Don't display 'No tests discovered' dialog before test functionality is used

Environment data

• VS Code version: 1.31.1
• Extension version (available under the Extensions sidebar): 2019.2.5433
• OS and version: 10.4.3

Expected behaviour

If I don’t have a unit test file, I don’t receive any test-related messages from VSCode by default.

Actual behaviour

I have unit testing enabled in my user settings, since most of my projects do have unit testing. But if I happen to open a folder that doesn’t have tests, I instantly receive a dialog that says “No tests discovered, please check the configuration settings for the tests” that stays in the workspace indefinitely until I manually dismiss it.

I find this kind of annoying - can’t this dialog be suppressed by default until I try to use test-related functionality, like running the 'Discover unit tests" command?

Steps to reproduce:

1. Enable `python.unitTest.pyTestEnabled’ in the user-wide settings.json.
2. Open a directory containing a Python file with VSCode.

[ericsnowcurrently]

@malmaud, thanks for letting us know about this. Yeah, that is definitely something we will look into fixing.

[malmaud]

Ok, makes sense. Thanks!

On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 7:23 PM Luciana Abud [e-mail] wrote:

@malmaud https://github.com/malmaud The prompt will be shown if you enable a test framework in your settings. When you enable it in the user settings, this is the expected behavior. One way to avoid this would be to open the folder you’re working on as a workspace and disable the tests frameworks in the workspace settings.

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