Pytest test discovery does not work with repository

Environment data

• VS Code version: 1.32.3
• Extension version (available under the Extensions sidebar): 2019.3.6215
• OS and version: Ubuntu 18.10
• Python version (& distribution if applicable, e.g. Anaconda): 3.6.3
• Type of virtual environment used (N/A | venv | virtualenv | conda | …): Pipfile
• Relevant/affected Python packages and their versions: XXX

Expected behaviour

Test cases in src/tests are discovered and not in any other subdirectories of src

Actual behaviour

unable to discover any test or tests are not limited to src/tests

Steps to reproduce:

Python sources are in src directory , test cases are src/tests directory. I should be able to configure the unit test to be found in src/tests and in src/tests only.I’ve setup an .env so linter and intelli sense work, but this is not picked by unit test discovery.

Adding a __init__.py to src seems so wrong as src is not a Python package and has the unwanted side effect that other subdirectories of src are also searched for tests

[karrtikr]

Thanks. So it seems you are not using pytest command line to run these tests, if pytest CLI supports running such tests, and we are not, then we could consider this as a bug. For now this is a possible enhancement.

[chdsbd]

I’ve made a smaller repo here: https://github.com/chdsbd/vscode-python-test-discovery-repro

test_hello_world.py is runnable but test_add.py doesn’t work.

Running poetry run pytest in backend/ will run all of the tests.