Changes to global / class variables are ignored (if no method of their module is executed)

[janbernloehr]

Suppose you have the following files

# mymodule.py
foo_bar = "value"

class MyClass:
    FOO = "bar"

# test_mymodule.py
from mymodule import MyClass, foo_bar

def test_module():
    assert foo_bar == "value"
    assert MyClass.FOO == "bar"

Now running pytest --testmon test_mymodule.py does not rerun test_module() when the value of MyClass.FOO or foo_bar is changed. Even worse, FOO can be completely removed, e.g.

class MyClass:
    pass

without triggering a re-run.

When running pytest --cov manually, there seems to be a trace

[tarpas]

Unfortunately this is quite a fundamental limitation. It's not impossible to fix but hard.

[tarpas]

It's also worth mentioning that if there is at least one function or method from mymodule used in test_mymodule then any change in mymodule is taken into account.

[janbernloehr]

This issue is unfortunately still present with testmon 2.0.9