pytest not finding any tests under module

[grantmcconnaughey]

I am working on a Django 1.9 application. When I run pytest it picks up tests in all the directories except the build directory. The build directory has a tests directory just like all of the other modules. Inside of tests is test_models.py, test_utils.py, and test_views.py.

When I run pytest myapp/apps/build/ then it picks up the tests just fine. But when I simply run pytest (or pytest myapp/apps/) then the build directory is completely excluded.

myapp.apps.build is in my INSTALLED_APPS setting, so that is not the issue. I've tried removing the __init__.py file from the build/tests/ and that did not work. Is the name "build" reserved to pytest or something?

Here is the output:

=== test session starts ===
platform linux2 -- Python 2.7.12, pytest-3.0.3, py-1.4.31, pluggy-0.4.0
Django settings: myapp.settings.testing (from ini file)
rootdir: /code, inifile: pytest.ini
plugins: django-3.0.0
collected 66 items

myapp/apps/authentication/tests/test_models.py ......
myapp/apps/core/tests/test_core_tags.py ...........
myapp/apps/core/tests/test_validators.py ........
myapp/apps/hooks/tests/test_utils.py ............
myapp/apps/hooks/tests/test_views.py ....
myapp/apps/issues/tests/test_models.py .
myapp/apps/issues/tests/test_views.py ..
myapp/apps/notifications/tests/test_models.py ........
myapp/apps/project/tests/test_decorators.py ....
myapp/apps/project/tests/test_models.py ...
myapp/apps/project/tests/test_views.py .......

Here is my project structure. I've truncated all of the apps except build.

├── myapp
│   ├── __init__.py
│   ├── apps
│   │   ├── __init__.py
│   │   ├── authentication
│   │   │   ├── __init__.py
│   │   │   ├── tests
│   │   ├── build
│   │   │   ├── __init__.py
│   │   │   ├── admin.py
│   │   │   ├── constants.py
│   │   │   ├── factories.py
│   │   │   ├── managers.py
│   │   │   ├── tests
│   │   │   │   ├── __init__.py
│   │   │   │   ├── test_models.py
│   │   │   │   ├── test_utils.py
│   │   │   │   └── test_views.py
│   │   │   ├── urls.py
│   │   │   ├── utils.py
│   │   │   ├── views.py
│   │   ├── core
│   │   │   ├── __init__.py
│   │   │   ├── tests
│   │   ├── hooks
│   │   │   ├── __init__.py
│   │   │   ├── tests
│   │   ├── issues
│   │   │   ├── __init__.py
│   │   │   ├── tests
│   │   ├── notifications
│   │   │   ├── __init__.py
│   │   │   ├── tests
│   │   ├── project
│   │   │   ├── __init__.py
│   │   │   ├── tests

[nicoddemus]

Hi,

That's strange, it should be picking up the tests. Could you please show the contents of your pytest.ini file? Also, can you provide a reproducible example or a public repository which exhibits the problem?

[tomviner]

build is in the default norecursedirs setting:

Default patterns are '._', 'build', 'dist', 'CVS', 'darcs', '{arch}', '.egg'

See http://doc.pytest.org/en/latest/customize.html#confval-norecursedirs

@grantmcconnaughey you can override this with a pytest.ini file containing, for example just the other default directories not to recurse into, but without "build":

[pytest]
norecursedirs = .* dist CVS _darcs {arch} *.egg

[grantmcconnaughey]

@tomviner Thank you, that fixed it!

[tomviner]

@grantmcconnaughey \0/