pip install pytest-cloud

# install GNU parallel utility
# https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/
# for MacOS, you can use:
brew install parallel

The plugin provides an easy way of running tests among several test nodes (workers). Uses the great pytest-xdist plugin for actual distributed run. When used, it will automatically detect capabilites of given node(s) and run only the number of test processes it is able to handle. If will also filter out offline nodes or nodes which were failed to respond to the capabilities acquisition call.

Supports automatic codebase propagation to the test nodes, so you don't have to install python dependencies for your project on remote test nodes globally - just make sure that your virtualenv folder is inside your project folder - that's a requirement. It will also detect a root folder of the test environment (project root), and will rsync it to all test nodes.

NOTE: > pytest-cloud uses virtualenv instead of built-in venv package.

ATM only ssh transport is supported. So ensure that you have at least public key auth enabled to your test nodes from the master node (where py.test is executed).

• --cloud-node

  Node hostname (or user@hostname) to run tests on. Multiple allowed.

• --cloud-nodes

  Space-separated list of node hostname (or user@hostname) to run tests on. Multiple allowed.

• --cloud-python

  Optional python executable name to be used on the remote test nodes. Default is the executable name used for the test run on the master.

• --cloud-chdir

  Optional relative path to be used on the remote test nodes as target folder for syncing file and run tests. Default is pytest_<username>_<current_folder_name>.

• --cloud-virtualenv-path

  Optional relative path to the virtualenv to be used on the remote test nodes. By default it will try to detect whether current test process is using virtualenv and if it's located inside of the current directory. If that's the case, it will use it for rsync on the remote node(s).

• --cloud-mem-per-process

  Optional amount of memory roughly needed for test process, in megabytes. Will be used to calculate amount of test processes per node, getting the free memory, dividing it for the memory per process needed, and getting the minimum of that value and the number of CPU cores of the test node.

• --cloud-max-processes

  Optional maximum number of processes per test node. Overrides from above the calculated number of processes using memory and number of CPU cores.

• --cloud-rsync-bandwidth-limit

  Optional bandwidth limit per rsync process, in kilobytes per second. 5000 by default.

• --cloud-rsync-max-processes

  Optional process count limit for rsync processes. By default there's no limit so rsyncing will be in parallel for all test nodes.

• --cloud-rsync-cipher

  Optional ssh cipher selection for rsync processes. aes128-gcm@openssh.com by default. Default cipher is chosen to have the least possible network overhead. Network overhead is system, compilation and CPU architecture dependent, however chosen cipher is showing good results in majority of use cases.

• cloud_develop_eggs

  Optional list of python package paths to install in development mode on remote side. Required to be inside of the project root directory.

py.test tests/ --cloud-node=10.0.120.{1..40} --cloud-mem-per-process=1000 --rsyncdir=.

Or if you pass list of nodes as space-separated list:

py.test tests/ --cloud-nodes='10.0.120.1 10.0.120.2' --cloud-mem-per-process=1000 --rsyncdir=.

If you have questions, bug reports, suggestions, etc. please create an issue on the GitHub project page.

This software is licensed under the MIT license

See License file

© 2015 Anatoly Bubenkov and others.