[pytest-dev] pytest overall execution timeout option

[Shankar Hiremath]

Hi Bruno,

Thanks for the suggestion for “pytest_timeout.before_process_kill” 
but the pytest_timeout works at test case level, what i require is a global timeout for pytest (not at test case level timeout)

Thanks
-Shankar


On Apr 20, 2016, at 9:34 PM, Bruno Oliveira <nicoddemus at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 11:01 AM Shankar Hiremath <shankarhiremath2006 at gmail.com> wrote:
> As part of “pytest_sessionfinish” we are doing few major activities (collecting cluster logs, artifacts, screen shots & videos of testing and moving to central location),
> so if kill the pytest based on global timeout then i will lose all the important data which is required for analyzing.
> 
> Oh right, forgot you mentioned that.
> 
> Currently pytest-timeout kills the process when a test times out, I guess it would be possible to change it to call an optional custom function that you can use to do your cleanup routines before it effectively kills the process.
> 
> import pytest_timeout
> from mylib import collect_artifacts_videos_and_move_them
> 
> pytest_timeout.before_process_kill = collect_artifacts_videos_and_move_them
> 
> def pytest_sessionfinish():
>     collect_artifacts_videos_and_move_them()
> Your clean up routines would have to be resilient enough to be called even if a test has not finished yet, however.
> 
> Another option is to do something similar to what is done in pytest-timeout in terms of stopping test execution, but instead of killing the process you have to set some kind of flag/file/whatever which is monitored by the code under execution. When that flag/file is set, your code will have to explicitly bail out of whatever it is doing, and then the pytest test session would finish normally. One way to stop the section is to set the “shouldstop” attribute as I demonstrated earlier.
> 
> Hope that helps,
> Bruno.
> 

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