pytest-bg-process
Pytest plugin to initialize background process.
The process will start once before all the tests using subprocess.Popen and will be killed once all the tests finished.
Installation
pip install pytest-bg-process
Configuration
From pytest configuration:
- background-cmd:
- Path to command to run at background
- Default: None
- background-cmd-env:
- Environmental variable to path to command to run at background.
- Has higher priority than background-cmd.
- Default: None
- background-pid:
- Path to save PID data of the background process.
- Default: background.pid
- background-log:
- Path to save log data of the background process.
- Default: background.log
Example
Using background-cmd
[pytest]
background-cmd=redis-server
background-pid=redis.pid
background-log=redis.log
Using background-cmd-env
[pytest]
background-cmd-env=REDIS_CMD
background-pid=redis.pid
background-log=redis.log
then
REDIS_CMD=redis-server && pytest