Time for action – decorating tests

We will apply the setastest decorator directly to test functions. Then we will apply the same decorator to a method to disable it. Also we will skip one of the tests and fail another. First we will install nose in case you don't have it yet.

1. Install nose with setuptools

   easy_install nose

   Or pip:

   pip install nose

2. We will apply one function as being a test and another as not being a test.

   @setastest(False)
   def test_false():
     pass
   
   @setastest(True)
   def test_true():
     pass

3. We can skip tests with the skipif decorator. Let's use a condition that always leads to a test being skipped.

   @skipif(True)
   def test_skip():
     pass

4. Add a test function that always passes. Then decorate it with the knownfailureif decorator so that the test always fails.

   @knownfailureif(True)
   def test_alwaysfail():
       pass

5. We will define some test classes with methods that normally should be executed by nose.

   class TestClass():
     def test_true2(self):
       pass
   
   class TestClass2():
     def test_false2...