Opened 4 years ago

Last modified 3 years ago

#32668 closed Cleanup/optimization

Separate test-collection setup from runtests.py's setup() for use in get_app_test_labels() — at Initial Version

Reported by: Chris Jerdonek Owned by: nobody
Component: Testing framework Version: dev
Severity: Normal Keywords:
Cc: Triage Stage: Accepted
Has patch: yes Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

This is another clean-up follow-up to PR #4106, similar to (PR #14276.

TLDR: Refactor out from runtests.py's setup() and teardown() simpler setup_test_collection() and teardown_test_collection() functions for use in the new get_app_test_labels() (used for bisect_tests() and paired_tests()). (The exact names aren't so important.)

Longer version:

Currently, runtests.py's setup() function and its role in getting the list of default test labels for bisect_tests(), paired_tests(), and test_runner.run_tests() is a bit complicated and harder to understand than it needs to be.

There are a couple reasons for this. First, setup() is actually doing two kinds of setup: one for collecting the default test labels (always needed), and one for setting up the test run (needed only for django_tests() but not bisect_tests() and paired_tests()). Second, the way the list of default test labels is obtained is a bit roundabout. Namely, a bunch of apps are added to INSTALLED_APPS, and then runtests.py's get_installed() is called to read from INSTALLED_APPS. However, for test-collection, INSTALLED_APPS doesn't actually need to be modified. You can see a side effect of this in the fact that get_installed() doesn't just return test labels. It also returns the following modules, which no longer contain any tests (this is the thing that PR #4106 from six years ago fixed):
django.contrib.admin, django.contrib.auth, django.contrib.contenttypes, django.contrib.flatpages, django.contrib.messages, django.contrib.redirects, django.contrib.sessions, django.contrib.sites, django.contrib.staticfiles.

By extracting out from setup() a setup_test_collection() function that just collects and returns the test labels, I think things will become a lot easier to understand and work with -- not just for bisect_tests() and paired_tests(), but also for the main django_tests() case.

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