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pytest plugin to re-run tests to eliminate flaky failures

Project description

pytest-rerunfailures

pytest-rerunfailures is a plugin for py.test that re-runs tests to eliminate intermittent failures.

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Requirements

You will need the following prerequisites in order to use pytest-rerunfailures:

  • Python 2.7, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, PyPy, or PyPy3

  • pytest 2.8.7 or newer

Installation

To install pytest-rerunfailures:

$ pip install pytest-rerunfailures

Re-run all failures

To re-run all test failures, use the --reruns command line option with the maximum number of times you’d like the tests to run:

$ pytest --reruns 5

To add a delay time between re-runs use the --reruns-delay command line option with the amount of seconds that you would like wait before the next test re-run is launched:

$ pytest --reruns 5 --reruns-delay 1

Re-run individual failures

To mark individual tests as flaky, and have them automatically re-run when they fail, add the flaky mark with the maximum number of times you’d like the test to run:

@pytest.mark.flaky(reruns=5)
def test_example():
    import random
    assert random.choice([True, False])

Note that when teardown fails, two reports are generated for the case, one for the test case and the other for the teardown error.

You can also specify the re-run delay time in the marker:

@pytest.mark.flaky(reruns=5, reruns_delay=2)
def test_example():
    import random
    assert random.choice([True, False])

Output

Here’s an example of the output provided by the plugin when run with --reruns 2 and -r aR:

test_report.py RRF

================================== FAILURES ==================================
__________________________________ test_fail _________________________________

    def test_fail():
>       assert False
E       assert False

test_report.py:9: AssertionError
============================ rerun test summary info =========================
RERUN test_report.py::test_fail
RERUN test_report.py::test_fail
============================ short test summary info =========================
FAIL test_report.py::test_fail
======================= 1 failed, 2 rerun in 0.02 seconds ====================

Note that output will show all re-runs. Tests that fail on all the re-runs will be marked as failed.

Compatibility

  • This plugin may not be used with class, module, and package level fixtures.

  • This plugin is not compatible with pytest-xdist’s –looponfail flag.

  • This plugin is not compatible with the core –pdb flag.

Resources

Changelog

4.1 (2018-05-23)

  • Add support for pytest 3.6 by using Node.get_closest_marker() (Thanks to @The-Compiler for the PR).

4.0 (2017-12-23)

  • Added option to add a delay time between test re-runs (Thanks to @Kanguros for the PR).

  • Added support for pytest >= 3.3.

  • Drop support for pytest < 2.8.7.

3.1 (2017-08-29)

  • Restored compatibility with pytest-xdist. (Thanks to @davehunt for the PR)

3.0 (2017-08-17)

  • Add support for Python 3.6.

  • Add support for pytest 2.9 up to 3.2

  • Drop support for Python 2.6 and 3.3.

  • Drop support for pytest < 2.7.

2.2 (2017-06-23)

  • Ensure that other plugins can run after this one, in case of a global setting --rerun=0. (Thanks to @sublee for the PR)

2.1.0 (2016-11-01)

  • Add default value of reruns=1 if pytest.mark.flaky() is called without arguments.

  • Also offer a distribution as universal wheel. (Thanks to @tltx for the PR)

2.0.1 (2016-08-10)

  • Prepare CLI options to pytest 3.0, to avoid a deprecation warning.

  • Fix error due to missing CHANGES.rst when creating the source distribution by adding a MANIFEST.in.

2.0.0 (2016-04-06)

  • Drop support for Python 3.2, since supporting it became too much of a hassle. (Reason: Virtualenv 14+ / PIP 8+ do not support Python 3.2 anymore.)

1.0.2 (2016-03-29)

  • Add support for –resultlog option by parsing reruns accordingly. (#28)

1.0.1 (2016-02-02)

  • Improve package description and include CHANGELOG into description.

1.0.0 (2016-02-02)

  • Rewrite to use newer API of pytest >= 2.3.0

  • Improve support for pytest-xdist by only logging the final result. (Logging intermediate results will finish the test rather rerunning it.)

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