colorunit: A nose plugin

###Why? Why do I write this plugin for nose, The reason is so sample that the nose original report is so ugly, what's the worse, not friendly for tester, actually python tester.

###Snapshot The Original report:

Now:

Ubuntu:

Windows XP:

###What? What Does I do? I just write a class called ColorUnit which is inherited from nose.plugins.Plugin.

For more this, see:

nose Developing

WritingPlugins

Plugin Interface

###How? How to use this nose plugin: colorunit

Only tree steps you need to follow:

####Install colorunit: ######Install with pip

pip install nose-colorxunit

######Uninstall with pip

pip uninstall nose-colorxunit

######Install with source

• First, active your own python virtual environment if you have.

python setup.py build

python setup.py install

• If you just want to install it as a super user or using sudo command, please think it again.

######Uninstall with source Just go to your own python virtual environment site-packages directory, and find nose_colorxunit-*.*.*-py*.*.egg, then delete it.

####Register colorunit [Optional] Now this is optional, just write the following code snippet into Any one of your test files if you like, for example, test_demo.py.

import nose
from colorunit import ColorUnit
if __name__ == '__main__':
    nose.main(addplugins=[ColorUnit()])

####Run the test files

nosetests --with-colorunit

Without --with-colorunit, the output will be the original report!

Note:

Be sure that you are working in your own python virtual environment

###Customize

• if you don't satisfy the default colormap and just want to use your own style of colormap, here is a example:

In the top level of test folder, create a configurational file called colorunit_conf.ini, by the way, you couldn't change the configurational file's name, otherwise, it will use the default colormap.

Save these as colorunit_conf.ini:

[Fore]
#Foreground color
#Optional: white, cyan, green, yellow, red, blue, magenta, or empty
Run: cyan
OK: green
Error: yellow
Fail: red
Skip: blue
KeyMsg: magenta
Time: white

[Back]
#Background color: Default is the terminal's color
#Optional: white, cyan, green, yellow, red, blue, magenta, or empty
Run:
OK:
Error: 
Fail:
Skip:
KeyMsg:
Time:

[Style]
#Optional: bright, dim, normal, or empty 
#Default is normal
#Note: dim looks like normal when on windows 
Style: bright

Also see examples/colorunit_conf.ini

###Who?

Name: Lesus

Email: walkingnine@gmail.com

Blog: http://my.oschina.net/swuly302/blog (Chinese)

If you have some good advice or idea, Welcome to communicate with me via email or be one of contributors!

###TODO

• Adding a decorator class or method for finding and showing these taken time over your expected taken time.

• Logging the output into specific file

###Issues

• Only for Linux[Fixed v0.1.2];

• Only for python2., not supports python3..[Fixed v0.2.0]

• Showing every test case taken time[Fixed v0.1.4]

• Why it needs to be registered again. For more informations, Please see How : Register colorunit section [Fixed v0.1.4]

###Thanks!

• Vim 7.4

• stackedit

• nose

• colorama

###LICENSE APACHE LICENSE VERSION 2.0

Also see LICENSE file