python unittest discover

unittest discover.md

• reference: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29713541/recursive-unittest-discover
• author: adam-smith https://stackoverflow.com/users/3058609/adam-smith

In doing a bit of digging, it seems that as long as deeper modules remain importable, they'll be discovered via python -m unittest discover. The solution, then, was simply to add a init.py file to each directory to make them packages.

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├── LICENSE
├── models
│   └── __init__.py
├── README.md
├── requirements.txt
├── tc.py
├── tests
│   ├── db
│   │   ├── __init__.py       # NEW
│   │   └── test_employee.py
│   ├── __init__.py           # NEW
│   └── test_tc.py
└── todo.txt

So long as each directory has an init.py, python -m unittest discover can import the relevant test_* module.