Pytest test discovery in subfolders

Question

Hi I have the following project architecture, I am using selenium with pytest

• From the terminal, when I am at the root folder, I can not run one the tests inside the folder "\tests"
• As far as you know Pytest should be able to discover all tests in the subfolders or I am getting this wrong?

The command I am using is: (venv) C:\Users\Mike\PycharmProjects\UI_Selenium_Framework> pytest test_logib_logout.py I am getting ERROR: file not found: test_login_logout.py

And when I run (venv) C:\Users\Mike\PycharmProjects\UI_Selenium_Framework> pytest pytest discovers all tests inside "\tests" and run it successfully

Answer 1

The easiest way is to open the terminal in the folder where the pytest files are saved and run the command.
In your case the command should look like this:

(venv) C:\Users\Mike\PycharmProjects\UI_Selenium_Framework\tests> pytest test_logib_logout.py

You can also generate an html report (if you have pytest-html plugin installed) by running the command pytest test_logib_logout.py --html=testreport.html

Answer 2

Another option is using '-k'

(venv) C:\Users\Mike\PycharmProjects\UI_Selenium_Framework> pytest -k test_login_logout.py

Answer 3

You should run pytest tests\test_login_logout.py. You have to specify the complete path from the current working directory, which is C:\Users\Mike\PycharmProjects\UI_Selenium_Framework in your case.

Note that you can also use Python's unittest module: python3 -m unittest discover tests