How to run Scrapy unit tests in Pycharm

Question

I am working with Pycharm, trying to run scrapy unit tests - and it fails to run. The errors are for missing imports, seems like all imports are failing. e.g.

 Import error... "no module named mock"

what I did:

1. Get scrapy from github

2. Run pip to install all dependencies from requirements.txt

3. Installed TOX , made sure I can run the tests using TOX.

4. Configured Pycharm to run tests using py.test

I'm working on Ubuntu 14.04, Python 2.7 .

Answer 1

You need to additionally pip install the tests requirements:

pip install -r tests/requirements.txt  # Python 2
pip install -r tests/requirements-py3.txt  # Python 3

That would install the mock package and solve the no module named mock on Python 2 (assuming you are installing into the same environment, you are running tests from).

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Note that to run the tests, you should use tox (which would also install the missing dependencies from requirements.txt during a test run setup phase):

tox -- tests/test_loader.py

(just done all of that and the tests are running and passing for me).

FYI, here is my PyCharm configuration for the tox runner: