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

read here how structure your test.

your fixture directory seems not in package (project does not have __init__.py so canno be imported as project.fixtures either as fixtures as is not in the path. You can add required dirs in the path in your tests/conftest.py (sys.path.append(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), os.pardir, "fixtures")) or sys.path.append(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), os.pardir) depending how how you want import your modules.

Answer 2

Did you try importing your fixtures in project/conftest.py? Is that what you mean by "wrappers to return an instance"?

Answer 3

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