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Suppress a specific type of exceptions in nose

I set up a CI pipeline (Gitlab CI if that matters) for my latest Python project and added several test cases for things I still want to implement. In each test case I raise a NotImplementedError since, well, it has not been implemented yet.

import unittest

class GenericTest(unittest.TestCase):

    def test_stuff(self):
        """I'll fill this in when I come around to it."""
        raise NotImplementedError

Generally, I want these tests to fail, since do not yet work properly. However, when I push to my repository and the tests are run on the CI system, I would like to skip these tests. I already know they will 'fail' and they mask actual failing tests.

Is there a way to suppress these exceptions, or a specific type of exception (like IKnowThisWillFailError), so that the affected tests are not counted as 'failed'?

Solution

  • what about 

    import unittest

class GenercTest(unittest.TestCase):

    def test_stuff(self):
        """I'll fill this in when I come around to it."""
        raise unittest.SkipTest("IKnowThisWillFail")

    your CI system probably can differentiate between skipped and failed tests