Support test discovery/running for python-behave

[ben-edna]

Currently nosetest, unittest and pytest are supported for running and debugging tests. This is very helpful and I use it a lot.
Another widely used testing framework in behave. This is a Behavior Driven Development framework with feature files.

It would be great if the Python plugin for VSCode could support Behave for auto-discovery and running/debugging of tests.

[karthiknadig]

Thank you for the suggestion! We have marked this issue as "needs decision" to make sure we have a conversation about your idea. We plan to leave this feature request open for at least a month to see how many 👍 votes the opening comment gets to help us make our decision.

[bittner]

(Maintainer of behave-django and contributor to behave here.)

Maybe you want to describe what needs to be done to integrate behave. To help understand how easy or difficult it would be to come up with a contribution.

[luabud]

Hey @bittner! Super happy to see you're interested in contributing to this. If you want to take a stab at it, we're not going to block the contribution. However, we've been talking about a long-term plan of reworking our testing integration and I believe that it would be easier to add support for additional tools once that is done. However we don't have an ETA as to when that would happen.

[bittner]

Do you have documentation describing a suggested approach to integrate Python tools?

• behave is a stand-alone tool (behave on the command line), but can be run as a module.
• behave-django must be run as a Django management command (python manage.py behave).

Any specific recommendations to ensure our investment is future-proof?

[ben-edna]

VSCode has released the Testing API which allows Visual Studio Code extensions to discover tests in the workspace and publish results docs. I also saw somebody already started an extension for behave based on this vscode-behave-test-adapter.

[eleanorjboyd]

Hello! We have just finished our testing rewrite and are beginning the roll out to users. If you are able, it would be very helpful to know if your issue still exists on the rewrite! To try it yourself, you need to be on the most recent release of the Python extension and add this setting to your users settings.json "python.experiments.optInto": ["pythonTestAdapter"].

You can confirm you have the rewrite enabled by setting "python.analysis.logLevel": "Trace", in your user settings then check for Experiment 'pythonTestAdapter' is active in your python logs.

Let me know if the rewrite fixes your issue. Thanks!

[eleanorjboyd]

my apologies, this is likely not to resolve it. The issue status is thus the same. Thanks

[brettcannon]

Due to limited resources and lack of general interest, we are unfortunately closing this issue.