Disable individual Python unit tests temporarily

Question

Individual test methods or classes can both be disabled using the unittest.skip decorator.

@unittest.skip("reason for skipping")
def test_foo():
    print('This is foo test case.')


@unittest.skip  # no reason needed
def test_bar():
    print('This is bar test case.')

For other options, see the docs for Skipping tests and expected failures.

You can use decorators to disable the test that can wrap the function and prevent the googletest or Python unit test to run the testcase.

def disabled(f):
    def _decorator():
        print f.__name__ + ' has been disabled'
    return _decorator

@disabled
def testFoo():
    '''Foo test case'''
    print 'this is foo test case'

testFoo()

Output:

testFoo has been disabled

Simply placing @unittest.SkipTest decorator above the test is enough.

The latest version (2.7 - unreleased) supports test skipping/disabling like so. You could just get this module and use it on your existing Python install. It will probably work.

Before this, I used to rename the tests I wanted skipped to xtest_testname from test_testname.

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Here's a quick Elisp script to do this. My Elisp is a little rusty, so I apologise in advance for any problems it has. Untested.

  (defun disable_enable_test ()
  (interactive "")
  (save-excursion
    (beginning-of-line)
    (search-forward "def")
    (forward-char)
    (if (looking-at "disable_")
    (zap-to-char 1 ?_)
      (insert "disable_"))))

I just rename a test case method with an underscore: test_myfunc becomes _test_myfunc.

The docs for 2.1 don't specify an ignore or skip method.

Usually though, I block comment when needed.