[SciPy-dev] Nose tests - merged

[Robert Kern]

Matthew Brett wrote:
> Actually, it would not be too hard to have tests in a benchmark
> directory, with names beginning with 'bench', no decorators.  It means
> that the tests have to be renamed from test_ to bench_, and that the
> tests would not, by default, be found by the vanilla 'nosetests
> /my/directory/somewhere', but I guess that's OK (backtracking on
> previous opinion).   Better?

I would like the benchmarks to be *not* found unless specifically asked for, 
even when just using nosetests instead of scipy.test(). Our use of nose to 
collect and run these benchmarks is convenient (and a good idea, IMO), but it is 
not the purpose of the tool or the framework to run benchmarks. I think that 
explicit action should be required to convince nose to run the benchmarks.

We/I can rig up a simple script (nosebench?) that will configure nose with the 
appropriate regexes to find the benchmarks.

-- 
Robert Kern

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