Why doesn't nosetests find anything?

Question

I am switching from python's unittest framework to nosetests, trying to reuse my unittest.TestCases

After cding into my tests package I started nosetests as described on their homepage:

./test/$ nosetests

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Ran 0 tests in 0.000s

OK

Why do I need to specify each module to have nose discover its tests like in the following example?

./test/$ nosetests test_all.py
.......
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ran 7 tests in 0.002s

OK

Also running the tests one folder above doesn't change anything.

./tests/$ cd ..
./$ nosetests

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Ran 0 tests in 0.000s

OK

Answer 1

I can see in your repo that at least some of the files are executable, so that is at least part of the problem. By default, nose won't collect those: it's trying to avoid running scripts that might do something destructive on import. Try the --exe flag, or removing the executable bit from the test files.

Answer 2

You need to be in the directory above that if you want nose to run all the tests in that package.