A plugin to allow nose to run tests in a random order

When nose runs the tests in a given project, the order that the tests are loaded and excuted is always the same.

For unit tests, an ideal situation is one of isolation: Each test should be able to run independently of the other tests in the project. If there is a dependency (such as Test_A must run first in order for Test_B to pass) then the test authors might want to look at how they have thier tests setup.

This plugin allows for randomization of the tests in a test class when they are run. In theory this should prove (or disprove) the isolation of the tests because they can be run in a random order every time and this should expose any pre-condition dependencies that might exist.

To install from source:

python setup.py install

(Coming soon) To install from pip:

pip install randomize

(coming soon)

Currently this plugin is only able to randomize the tests within a Class or Module. It does not support running the Classes in a random order.

For example if you have 3 test classes (TestClass1, TestClass2, TestClass3), they will be called in that order. The tests within each class will be executed in a random order, but the classes them selves will be called in the same order every time.

• License - This plugin is LGPL Licensed per the original author

• Original author - This work is based on the code created by Charles McCreary as posted to https://code.google.com/p/python-nose/issues/detail?id=255

• Goals of this version - This project is attempting the following:

• The ability to randomize across all tests, not just within the TestCase class
• High (as close to 100% as possible) test coverage. Currently 82%.

• Questions? Comments? - Please feel free to open an issue on this project's github page: [https://github.com/nloadholtes/nose-randomize]