[Freeipa-devel] [freeipa PR#475][comment] Add options to run only ipaclient unittests

[tiran]

  URL: https://github.com/freeipa/freeipa/pull/475
Title: #475: Add options to run only ipaclient unittests

tiran commented:
"""
My first PoC used the approach. ipa-run-tests can already takes arguments to limit tests to subdirectories. One has to remember that ipa-run-tests performs chdir()...

The additional option combined with the marker have some benefits. It's not just less work and more robust, it permits us to use a cleaner and declarative way to mark test cases. The author of a test case can mark a test with pytest's standard API instead of changing some test runner options. The markers allow us to skip some test cases in a file, too. In my and your example, some tests of ```test_csrgen``` are skipped in ```--ipaclient-unittest``` mode. :)
"""

See the full comment at https://github.com/freeipa/freeipa/pull/475#issuecomment-280582317