Is there a way to write (or run) a set of Python unittest tests so that there is no output except when there is a test failure?
For example, if tests/mytests.py contains some unittest tests, then running python3 test/mytests.py will only output to stdout (or stderr) if there is a test failure.
Yes there is. I was able to combine the techniques in the answers to these two questions to get it to work:
Python, unittest: Can one make the TestRunner completely quiet?
You can uncomment the test_should_fail() test to verify what happens when a test fails.
# mymodule.py
def myfunc():
return True
import unittest
import os
class TestMyFunc(unittest.TestCase):
def test_myfunc(self):
self.assertEqual(myfunc(), True)
# def test_should_fail(self):
# self.assertEqual(True, False)
if __name__ == '__main__':
alltests = unittest.TestLoader().loadTestsFromTestCase(TestMyFunc)
runner = unittest.TextTestRunner(stream=open(os.devnull, 'w'))
result = runner.run(alltests)
if len(result.failures) or len(result.errors):
print('There were failures or errors.')
