Select tests according to their mark

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Originally reported by: David Burns (BitBucket: AutomatedTester, GitHub: AutomatedTester)

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Currently the only way to sort through tests is with the -k option. Unfortunately this also looks at the method name which can run tests you don't want/expect.

For example

#!python



@pytest.mark.staging
def test_omg_dont_run_on_prod(self):
    pass

@pytest.mark.prod
def test_basics_still_work(self):
    pass


py.test -k prod #Runs the tests above even though the first one is marked as staging

It would be great if we could add a -m option that only looks at the marks.

so if I did py.test -m prod only the second test would be run.

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• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/pytest-dev/pytest/issue/50

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Original comment by David Burns (BitBucket: AutomatedTester, GitHub: AutomatedTester):

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We should also be able to negate marks to not have them included

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Original comment by holger krekel (BitBucket: hpk42, GitHub: hpk42):

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are you still up for offering a patch?

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Original comment by holger krekel (BitBucket: hpk42, GitHub: hpk42):

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are you still up for offering a patch?

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Original comment by David Burns (BitBucket: AutomatedTester, GitHub: AutomatedTester):

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Yea, I know someone who has just created plugin that we can use to bring it into the core.

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Original comment by David Burns (BitBucket: AutomatedTester, GitHub: AutomatedTester):

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Is there anything else that needs to be done with the pull request for this?

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Original comment by holger krekel (BitBucket: hpk42, GitHub: hpk42):

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i added another review on the pull request and don't think the feature is quite finished. There also is the issue of adding a few examples in the docs. I can see to do some of the work myself but i can't tell when i get to it.

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Original comment by holger krekel (BitBucket: hpk42, GitHub: hpk42):

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fix issue50 (add a reference to the already implemented -m) and improve release annoucnement and changelog.