id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc	stage	has_patch	needs_docs	needs_tests	needs_better_patch	easy	ui_ux
4460	runtests.py can't easily control which tests to run	(removed)	Adrian Holovaty	"Right now, runtests.py accepts only model names to test- this isn't grand if you're specifically after running a regressiontest however, or even django.contrib.*.  One can use trial, but that requires setting up a few extra envvars- it's not hard to do, it's just a fair bit of a hit to the workflow (at least it is for me).

Attached is a patch mangling runtests.py so that it takes modeltests.model1, regressiontests.regresion1 args instead of just model names- additionally, can take modeltests.* or regressiontests.* to enable all tests for that namespace (basically).  So for example-
{{{
python tests/runtests.py --settings=settings -v 1 basic
}}}
becomes
{{{
python tests/runtests.py --settings=settings -v 1 modeltests.basic
}}}

Upshot of that slightly larger invocation, is that regressiontests, django.contrib, any namespace can be specified now-
{{{
python tests/runtests.py --settings=settings -v 1 regressiontests.bug639
python tests/runtests.py --settings=settings -v 1 django.contrib.sessions
}}}

"		closed	Testing framework	dev		fixed		andy-django@… Maniac@…	Accepted	0	0	0	0	0	0