I have a set of tests implemented with unittest, which are run automatically. I would like to run them at most once an hour and I have a method checking this condition, and returns True (if it's ok to run them) or False (if should exit tests).
How can I integrate this with unittest such that setUpClass or setUp methods exit (and do not fail) if the check function returns False?
PS: I am using python 2.6, so I can't use these
As Alex mentioned, you should just remember the last tests run date and either run the tests or don't from the deploy script, not from unittest.
If you need modern unittest class on python 2.6 you can do "pip install unittest2".
It is possible to do something like this via your own decorator that would wrap each testcase inside function that would either run them or skip on some condition, but that wouldn't be good solution for you.
unittest in 2.6 doesn't support skipping tests (the functionality was added in 2.7: http://docs.python.org/library/unittest.html?highlight=unittest#skipping-tests-and-expected-failures), but you can use unittest2 which is a backport of the 2.7 features to earlier versions.
You'll have to invoke the tests using the unit2 wrapper script.
