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Interval between tests in pytest

Is there a common practice to add interval between tests in pytest? Currently integration tests fail but work fine if running the tests individually.

Solution

  • You can use autouse fixtures in pytest to automatically sleep in between test cases:

    @pytest.fixture(autouse=True)
def slow_down_tests():
    yield
    time.sleep(1)

    This fixture will automatically be used for all test cases and will yield execution to a test case so it can run normally, but when the test finishes, the execution will come back to this fixture and the sleep will be run.