Improved test runner to use progressive plugin for large suites

runtests.py

@@ -4,18 +4,16 @@ import logging
 from optparse import OptionParser
 from coverage import coverage
 
-# This configures the settings
 from tests.config import configure
-configure()
-
-from django_nose import NoseTestSuiteRunner
 
 logging.disable(logging.CRITICAL)
 
 
 def run_tests(options, *test_args):
+    from django_nose import NoseTestSuiteRunner
     test_runner = NoseTestSuiteRunner(verbosity=options.verbosity,
-                                      pdb=options.pdb)
+                                      pdb=options.pdb,
+                                      )
     if not test_args:
         test_args = ['tests']
     num_failures = test_runner.run_tests(test_args)
@@ -33,6 +31,12 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
                       action='store_true', help="Whether to drop into PDB on failure/error")
     (options, args) = parser.parse_args()
 
+    # If no args, then use 'progressive' plugin to keep the screen real estate
+    # used down to a minimum.  Otherwise, use the spec plugin
+    nose_args = ['-s', '-x',
+                 '--with-progressive' if not args else '--with-spec']
+    configure(nose_args)
+
     if options.use_coverage:
         print 'Running tests with coverage'
         c = coverage(source=['oscar'])

tests/config.py

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ from django.conf import settings, global_settings
 from oscar import OSCAR_CORE_APPS
 
 
-def configure():
+def configure(nose_args):
     if not settings.configured:
         from oscar.defaults import OSCAR_SETTINGS
 
@@ -56,6 +56,6 @@ def configure():
             HAYSTACK_SEARCH_ENGINE='dummy',
             HAYSTACK_SITECONF = 'oscar.search_sites',
             APPEND_SLASH=True,
-            NOSE_ARGS=['-s', '-x', '--with-spec'],
+            NOSE_ARGS=nose_args,
             **OSCAR_SETTINGS
         )