# pytest-services **Repository Path**: mirrors_pytest-dev/pytest-services ## Basic Information - **Project Name**: pytest-services - **Description**: Collection of fixtures and utility functions to run service processes for your tests - **Primary Language**: Unknown - **License**: MIT - **Default Branch**: main - **Homepage**: None - **GVP Project**: No ## Statistics - **Stars**: 0 - **Forks**: 0 - **Created**: 2020-08-18 - **Last Updated**: 2026-04-11 ## Categories & Tags **Categories**: Uncategorized **Tags**: None ## README Services plugin for pytest testing framework ============================================ .. image:: https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/pytest-services.svg :target: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pytest-services .. image:: https://img.shields.io/pypi/pyversions/pytest-services.svg :target: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pytest-services .. image:: https://img.shields.io/coveralls/pytest-dev/pytest-services/master.svg :target: https://coveralls.io/r/pytest-dev/pytest-services .. image:: https://travis-ci.org/pytest-dev/pytest-services.svg?branch=master :target: https://travis-ci.org/pytest-dev/pytest-services .. image:: https://readthedocs.org/projects/pytest-services/badge/?version=latest :target: https://readthedocs.org/projects/pytest-services/?badge=latest :alt: Documentation Status Install pytest-services ----------------------- :: pip install pytest-services .. _pytest: http://pytest.org .. _pytest-xdist: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pytest-xdist .. _pytest-splinter: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pytest-splinter .. _pytest-bdd: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pytest-bdd .. _pytest-django: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pytest-django .. _memcached: http://memcached.org .. _xvfb: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xvfb .. _mysql-server: http://dev.mysql.com/ Features -------- The plugin provides a set of fixtures and utility functions to start service processes for your tests with pytest_ Fixtures -------- * run_services Determines whether services should be run or not. False by default if not in distributed environment (without pytest-xdist_). Can be manually set to True by overriding this fixture in your test config or just by using `--run-services` command line argument (see below). Infrastructure fixtures *********************** * worker_id Id of the worker if tests are run using pytest-xdist_. It is set to `local` if tests are not run using pytest-xdist_ (with `--dist` command line option set to `load`). Has a deprecated alias ``slave_id`` which will be removed in a future version. * session_id Test session id. Globally unique, and of course also guaranteed to be different for potentially multiple test sessions running on same test node via pytest-xdist_. * watcher_getter Function to instantiate test service watcher (popen object). Includes automatic finalization (exiting) of the service process, and testing the service before returning the watcher from the function. Example of usage for memcached service: .. code-block:: python @pytest.fixture(scope='session') def memcached(request, run_services, memcached_socket, watcher_getter): """The memcached instance which is ready to be used by the tests.""" if run_services: return watcher_getter( name='memcached', arguments=['-s', memcached_socket], checker=lambda: os.path.exists(memcached_socket), # Needed for the correct execution order of finalizers request=request, ) * services_log Logger used for debug logging when managing test services. * root_dir Parent directory for test service artifacts (disk based). Set to `/tmp` by default. * base_dir Base directory for test service artifacts (disk based), unique subdirectory of `root_dir`. Automatically removed recursively at the end of the test session. * temp_dir `Temporary` directory (disk based), subfolder of the `base_dir`. Used for strictly temporary artifacts (for example - folder where files are uploaded from the user input). * memory_root_dir Parent directory for test service artifacts (memory based). Main idea of having memory base directory is to store performance-critical files there. For example - mysql service will use it to store database file, it speeds up mysql server a lot, especially database management operations. Set to `/var/shm` by default, with a fallback to 'root_dir`. Note that if apparmor is running on your system, most likely it will prevent your test service to use it (for example - mysql has it's apparmor profile). You you'll need to disable such profile in apparmor configuration. Example of disabling apparmor for mysqld: .. code-block:: sh sudo ln -s /etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.mysqld /etc/apparmor.d/disable/ sudo /etc/init.d/apparmor restart * memory_base_dir Base directory for test service artifacts (memory based), unique subdirectory of `memory_root_dir`. Automatically removed recursively at the end of the test session. * memory_temp_dir `Temporary` directory (memory based), subfolder of the `base_dir`. * lock_dir Lock files directory for storing locks created for resource assignment (ports, display, etc). Subfolder of `memory_root_dir`. * run_dir Process id and socket files directory (like system-wide `/var/run` but local for test session). Subfolder of `memory_root_dir`. * port_getter Function to get unallocated port. Automatically ensures locking and un-locking of it on application level via flock. * display_getter Function to get unallocated display. Automatically ensures locking and un-locking of it on application level via flock. * lock_resource_timeout Used in function lock_resource. A maximum of total sleep between attempts to lock resource. Service fixtures **************** * memcached Start memcached_ instance. Requires `pylibmc` installed or `memcache` indicated as an extra (`pip install 'pytest-services[memcached]'`). * memcached_socket Memcached unix socket file name to be used for connection. * memcached_connection Memcached connection string. * do_memcached_clean Determine if memcached should be cleared before every test run. Equals to `run_services` fixture by default. Requires `pylibmc` installed or `memcache` indicated as an extra (`pip install 'pytest-services[memcached]'`). * memcached_client A pylibmc.Client instance bound to the service. Requires `pylibmc` installed or `memcache` indicated as an extra (`pip install 'pytest-services[memcached]'`). * mysql Start mysql-server_ instance. * mysql_database_name MySQL database name to be created after initialization of the mysql service `system` database. * mysql_database_getter Function with single parameter - database name. To create additional database(s) for tests. Used in `mysql_database` fixture which is used by `mysql` one. * mysql_connection MySQL connection string. * xvfb Start xvfb_ instance. * xvfb_display Xvfb display to use for connection. * xvfb_resolution Xvfb display resolution to use. Tuple in form `(1366, 768, 8)`. Utility functions ***************** Django settings ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ In some cases, there's a need of switching django settings during test run, because several django projects are tested whithin the single test suite. `pytest_services.django_settings` simplifies switching of django settings to a single function call: * setup_django_settings Override the enviroment variable and call the _setup method of the settings object to reload them. Example of usage: conftest.py: .. code-block:: python from pytest_services import django_settings django_settings.clean_django_settings() django_settings.setup_django_settings('your.project.settings') Note that the nice project pytest-django_ doesn't help with the situation, as it's single django project oriented, as well as standard django testing technique. Single project approach works fine, as long as there are no fixtures to share between them, but when there are fixtures to share, then you can get benefit of joining several django projects tests into a single test run, because all session-scoped fixtures will be instantiated only once for all projects tests. The benefit is only visible if you have big enough test suite and your fixtures are heavy enough. Command-line options -------------------- * `--run-services` Force services to be run even if tests are executed in a non-distributed way (without pytest-xdist_). * `--xvfb-display` Skip xvfb service to run and use provided display. Useful when you need to run all services except the xvfb_ to debug your browser tests, if, for example you use pytest-splinter_ with or without pytest-bdd_. Example ------- test_your_test.py: .. code-block:: python import MySQLdb def test_some_mysql_stuff(mysql): """Test using mysql server.""" conn = MySQLdb.connect(user='root') Contact ------- If you have questions, bug reports, suggestions, etc. please create an issue on the `GitHub project page `_. License ------- This software is licensed under the `MIT license `_ See `License file `_ © 2014 Anatoly Bubenkov, Paylogic International and others.