Are factory.django.DjangoModelFactory fixtures in conftest.py available across applications?

[tony]

pytest-dev/pytest-django#508

I'm using factory_boy with https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-django.

python: 3.6.2
django: 1.11.4
pytest-django: 3.1.2
factory-boy: 2.8.1 (downgraded due to #47 (comment))
pytest-factoryboy: 1.3.1

Here's my app1/conftest.py:

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import factory
import pytest
from django.contrib.auth import get_user_model
from django.core.management import call_command
from pytest_factoryboy import register

class UserFactory(factory.django.DjangoModelFactory):
    class Meta:
        model = get_user_model()

    username = factory.Sequence(lambda n: "user%03d" % n)
    password = factory.Sequence(lambda n: "pass%03d" % n)

register(UserFactory)

This makes user available as a fixture for me. However, it only works in tests in the same application, not project-wide (in different django application test directories).

Am I doing it wrong, then? I'm trying to narrow down if this is a mistake on my end, a bug, a potential feature, or expected behavior.

[tony]

By the way, here's my workaround:

Apparently the fixture user created by register is only available in the application the conftest.py is in, not project-wide.

So, I create a second conftest.py in the application missing the user fixture to re-register the fixture:

app2/conftest.py:

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from pytest_factoryboy import register

from ...core.tests.conftest import UserFactory

register(UserFactory)

[tony]

I will close this issue for now since I don't remember the context / am using the same test suite as a few years back.