pytest test collection takes a lot of time (~10min for 2000 tests)

• a detailed description of the bug or suggestion I have around 2000 tests, of which collection time takes ~10 min while running them takes 2.5 min.
• output of pip list from the virtual environment you are using $ pip3 list DEPRECATION: The default format will switch to columns in the future. You can use --format=(legacy|columns) (or define a format=(legacy|columns) in your pip.conf under the [list] section) to disable this warning. asn1crypto (0.24.0) atomicwrites (1.3.0) attrs (19.1.0) Automat (0.6.0) bcrypt (3.1.6) blinker (1.4) boto3 (1.9.111) botocore (1.12.111) certifi (2019.6.16) cffi (1.12.2) chardet (3.0.4) click (6.7) cloud-init (19.1) colorama (0.3.7) command-not-found (0.3) configobj (5.0.6) constantly (15.1.0) cryptography (2.6.1) decorator (4.4.0) dill (0.2.9) distro-info (0.18ubuntu0.18.04.1) docutils (0.14) hibagent (1.0.1) httplib2 (0.9.2) hyperlink (17.3.1) idna (2.8) importlib-metadata (0.21) incremental (16.10.1) Jinja2 (2.10) jmespath (0.9.4) jsonpatch (1.16) jsonpointer (1.10) jsonschema (2.6.0) keyring (10.6.0) keyrings.alt (3.0) language-selector (0.1) MarkupSafe (1.0) more-itertools (7.2.0) netifaces (0.10.4) oauthlib (2.0.6) packaging (19.1) PAM (0.4.2) paramiko (2.0.0) pip (9.0.1) pkg-resources (0.0.0) pluggy (0.12.0) py (1.8.0) pyasn1 (0.4.5) pyasn1-modules (0.2.1) pycparser (2.19) pycrypto (2.6.1) pygobject (3.26.1) PyJWT (1.5.3) PyNaCl (1.3.0) pyOpenSSL (17.5.0) pyparsing (2.4.2) pyserial (3.4) pytest (5.1.2) pytest-jira (0.3.11) pytest-reportportal (1.0.7) python-apt (1.6.4) python-dateutil (2.8.0) python-debian (0.1.32) pyxdg (0.25) PyYAML (3.12) reportportal-client (3.2.0) requests (2.22.0) requests-unixsocket (0.1.5) retry (0.9.2) s3transfer (0.2.0) SecretStorage (2.3.1) service-identity (16.0.0) setuptools (39.0.1) six (1.12.0) ssh-import-id (5.7) systemd-python (234) Twisted (17.9.0) ufw (0.36) unattended-upgrades (0.1) urllib3 (1.25.3) wcwidth (0.1.7) wheel (0.30.0) zipp (0.6.0) zope.interface (4.3.2)
• pytest and operating system versions 5.1.2 on Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS
• minimal example if possible

[The-Compiler]

Looking at that profile, something is doing network requests at import time. See e.g.:

       46    0.001    0.000  339.007    7.370 adapters.py:394(send)
       46    0.001    0.000  339.311    7.376 api.py:104(post)
       46    0.001    0.000  339.268    7.375 sessions.py:466(request)
       46    0.002    0.000  339.025    7.370 sessions.py:617(send)

[Zac-HD]

   ncalls  tottime  percall  cumtime  percall filename:lineno(function)
        1    0.000    0.000   41.799   41.799 test_aws_egress_only_internet_gateway.py:1(<module>)
        1    0.000    0.000    0.479    0.479 test_aws_instances.py:1(<module>)
        1    0.000    0.000   40.784   40.784 test_aws_internet_gateway.py:1(<module>)
        1    0.000    0.000    0.538    0.538 test_aws_nat_gateway.py:1(<module>)
        1    0.000    0.000   39.994   39.994 test_aws_network_acl.py:1(<module>)
        1    0.000    0.000    0.504    0.504 test_aws_network_interface.py:1(<module>)
        1    0.000    0.000   40.699   40.699 test_aws_route_tables.py:1(<module>)
        1    0.000    0.000    0.540    0.540 test_aws_security_groups.py:1(<module>)
        1    0.000    0.000    1.356    1.356 test_aws_subnets.py:1(<module>)
        1    0.000    0.000   16.470   16.470 test_aws_vpc.py:1(<module>)
        1    0.000    0.000   15.466   15.466 test_aws_vpc_peering_connection.py:1(<module>)
        1    0.000    0.000    7.274    7.274 test_aws_vpn_connection.py:1(<module>)
        1    0.000    0.000    0.512    0.512 test_aws_vpn_gateway.py:1(<module>)
        1    0.000    0.000   10.962   10.962 test_azure_crud_credentials.py:1(<module>)
        1    0.000    0.000   36.597   36.597 test_azure_firewalls.py:1(<module>)
        1    0.000    0.000   30.940   30.940 test_azure_network_interfaces.py:1(<module>)
        1    0.000    0.000   10.568   10.568 test_azure_route_tables.py:1(<module>)
        1    0.000    0.000   41.044   41.044 test_azure_security_groups.py:1(<module>)
        1    0.000    0.000   40.799   40.799 test_azure_vms.py:1(<module>)
        1    0.000    0.000   16.122   16.122 test_azure_vnets_subnets.py:1(<module>)
        1    0.000    0.000   24.853   24.853 test_azure_vpn_gateways.py:1(<module>)

Filtering the profile output for lines containing test_aws_ or test_azure_ will probably narrow this down enough to spot the function(s) making collection-time network requests.

I don’t think this is a pytest bug though, so I’ll close the issue.