References to tests in === FAILURES === report should be suitable as input to select tests.

Hi!

I’d like to be able to quickly retest a certain failing test after running the whole suite. --last-failed provides a similar functionality, but not the same if multiple (or many) tests fail.

Whenever I have failures, the “FAILED/PASSED” lines in the session report lists them in a way that is suitable for input for selecting them for a subsequent run (as outlined in https://docs.pytest.org/en/latest/usage.html#specifying-tests-selecting-tests).

project/package/tests/test_or.py::TestSomeClass::test_some_behaviour FAILED  [  1%]

However when I’m investigating a failure I’m often looking at the backtrace and variables in the === FAILURES === section of pytest’s output:

============================================== FAILURES ==============================================
___________________________ TestSomeClass.test_some_behaviour ____________________________

self = <project.package.tests.test_or.TestSomeClass testMethod=test_some_behaviour>

    def test_some_behaviour(self):
[...]
self       = <project.package.tests.test_or.TestSomeClass testMethod=test_some_behaviour>

project/package/tests/test_or.py:158: AssertionError

And to get the node id of the test in question, I either have to scroll up (quite far, if my testsuite contains over 500 tests) or piece the information together from the output.

I can use the method name test_some_behaviour together with -k but this might execute multiple tests with the same name.

In the concrete example it would be convenient for me if project/package/tests/test_or.py::TestSomeClass::test_some_behaviour would appear somewhere in the FAILURES output.

Thanks!

[nicoddemus]

Opened #3566 to track adding a blurb about -r to the docs. Thanks for the report @TauPan!

[nicoddemus]

Hi,

It is shown in some places:

• https://docs.pytest.org/en/latest/skipping.html?highlight=-rx
• https://docs.pytest.org/en/latest/example/simple.html?highlight=-rx#incremental-testing-test-steps

But you are correct that it should be displayed more prominently somewhere.