pytest fixtures in a separate directory

Question

I\'m looking to create a pytest structure where I can separate the fixtures from the tests completely. The reason for this separation is that I want to include the fixtures

Answer 1

Please add the following in your conftest.py

  import pytest

  pytest_plugins = [
   "fixtures.conftest",
   "fixtures.fixture_cifs",
   "fixtures.fixture_ftp",
   "fixtures.fixture_service"
  ]

This ensures that all fixtures declared under fixtures/ will be found by pytest

As a note that the respective directories referred to in fixtures.conftest" need to have __init__.py files for the plugins to be loaded by pytest

A similar case can be seen here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/54736237/6655459