Registering Markers to Avoid Marker Typos
Custom markers, as discussed in Marking Test Functions, are great for allowing you to mark a subset of tests to run with a specific marker. However, it’s too easy to misspell a marker and end up having some tests marked with @pytest.mark.smoke and some marked with @pytest.mark.somke. By default, this isn’t an error. pytest just thinks you created two markers. This can be fixed, however, by registering markers in pytest.ini, like this:
| | [pytest] |
| | markers = |
| | smoke: Run the smoke test functions for tasks project |
| | get: Run the test functions that test tasks.get() |
With these markers registered, you can now also see them with pytest --markers with their descriptions:
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