How to pass arguments to the test scripts?

[iomartin]

I have some tests written with unittest and I have overloaded the unittest's parseArgs() and _getMainArgParser() functions to provide my script with some custom arguments.

Is there something similar in unittest-parallel? Either a function to overload or a way to pass arguments to the test script? Worst case I can do it via env variables but that's a bit hacky 😆 .

BTW this project is helping me achieve a ~20x speedup in my tests so a big thanks!

[craigahobbs]

unittest-parallel doesn't currently allow for argument-parsing overrides. I think using environment variables is a reasonable solution, depending on the complexity of your extra arguments. The biggest downside is probably the need to document somewhere else? What do you think?

If environment variables are too clunky, would it be sufficient to just break-out the argument parser creation into its own function?

unittest-parallel/src/unittest_parallel/main.py

Line 28 in 26adaaf

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(prog='unittest-parallel')

PS - 20x - that's awesome!

[iomartin]

Thanks @craigahobbs.

I ended up going with env variables, I wrote a simple python wrapper that takes the same arguments as the original unittest file, sets the env variables then calls unittest_parallel.

The 20x turned out to be false as I was running on a different machine with a different number of cores, in my real testing environment it was closer to 6x but that's still amazing.