Nose test script with command line arguments

Question

I would like to be able to run a nose test script which accepts command line arguments. For example, something along the lines:

test.py

import nose, sys
         


        

Answer 1

I think that is a perfectly acceptable scenario. I also needed to do something similar in order to run the tests against different scenarios (dev, qa, prod, etc) and there I needed the right URLS and configurations for each environment.

The solution I found was to use the nose-testconfig plugin (link here). It is not exactly passing command line arguments, but creating a config file with all your parameters, and then passing this config file as argument when you execute your nose-tests.

The config file has the following format:

[group1]
env=qa

[urlConfig]
address=http://something

[dbConfig]
user=test
pass=test

And you can read the arguments using:

from testconfig import config

print(config['dbConfig']['user'])