conttest

Continuous testing helper, adapted from [1], but which makes no assumption about what tests you might want to run continuously while developing. For more information, see this blog post.

Any command supplied to the script will be run once and then repeated any time a file in the current working directory changes, except for files excluded using .conttest-excludes as described below.

Note that ANY command you supply the script will be run, so be careful. You have been warned!

[1] https://github.com/brunobord/tdaemon/blob/master/tdaemon.py

Installation

./setup.py install  # from source

or

pip install conttest  # use sudo if installing globally

Usage examples

conttest nosetests
conttest 'nosetests -q && pep8 -r .'

Placing a file .conttest-excludes in the current working directory will exclude subdirectories, e.g.:

.svn$
.git
build
vendor/elastic*
install

will match files against the listed regular expressions and skip checking for changes in those directories. This can save quite a bit of time and CPU during normal operation.

Author

John Jacobsen

License

Eclipse Public License

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTY RIGHTS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.