nose-deadline

Description

Enforced timelimits for nosetests.

Example

from nose_deadline import deadline

@deadline(1)
def test_sleep():
    import time
    time.sleep(5)

Then run nosetest --with-deadline <FILE> and you will see this error message:

T
======================================================================
Deadline exceeded.: test.test_sleep
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Traceback (most recent call last):
  [...]
  File "test.py", line 6, in test_sleep
    time.sleep(5)
  File "/home/schoellingm/tmp/nose-alarm/nose_deadline.py", line 19, in sig_handler
    raise DeadlineExceeded('Test did not finish within {}sec.'.format(sec))
nose_deadline.DeadlineExceeded: Test did not finish within 1sec.

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ran 1 test in 1.001s

FAILED (Deadline exceeded.=1)

Restrictions

Only works on *nix systems because it needs POSIX signals.