It's not possible to run a specific test if it's not in models.py or tests.py (e.g. when using suites)

[dolapo]

The simple django test runner looks for tests in either models.py or tests.py. This is unfortunate for large applications since tests.py in each app becomes rather large and unwieldy. Apps with a large number of tests can break out their tests further by creating a method called suite() that returns a TestSuite. This works for test separation but because the runner still looks for test cases in models.py or tests.py it is no longer possible to run an individual TestCase or TestCase.test_method .

Proposal:
In addition to supporting the ability to specify tests to run as:

• app
• app.TestCase
• app.TestCase.test_method

also support:

• app.module.TestCase.test_method
• app.module.TestCase.*

I'm including a patch which adds this functionality.

[dolapo]

Since I screwed up the formatting in the description, this patch adds to the simple test runner the ability to run tests as:

app.module.TestCase.test_method
app.module.TestCase.*

[mapleoin]

This looks more like a documentation bug to me, you can replace tests.py with a tests python package and you can have as many submodules as you want in different files in that package as explained in the ​Python docs.

I'm attaching a documentation patch.

[mapleoin]

documentation patch

[Ramiro Morales]

Duplicate of #6712.