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diff --git a/docs/testing.txt b/docs/testing.txt index abb47d3319..fb472a2cc2 100644 --- a/docs/testing.txt +++ b/docs/testing.txt @@ -662,12 +662,13 @@ framework that can be executed from Python code. Defining a test runner ---------------------- By convention, a test runner should be called ``run_tests``; however, you -can call it anything you want. The only requirement is that it accept three -arguments: +can call it anything you want. The only requirement is that it has the +same arguments as the Django test runner: -``run_tests(module_list, verbosity=1, interactive=True)`` +``run_tests(module_list, verbosity=1, interactive=True, extra_tests=[])`` The module list is the list of Python modules that contain the models to be - tested. This is the same format returned by ``django.db.models.get_apps()`` + tested. This is the same format returned by ``django.db.models.get_apps()``. + The test runner should search these modules for tests to execute. Verbosity determines the amount of notification and debug information that will be printed to the console; ``0`` is no output, ``1`` is normal output, @@ -679,6 +680,10 @@ arguments: delete an existing test database. If ``interactive`` is ``False, the test suite must be able to run without any manual intervention. + ``extra_tests`` is a list of extra ``TestCase`` instances to add to the + suite that is executed by the test runner. These extra tests are run + in addition to those discovered in the modules listed in ``module_list``. + This method should return the number of tests that failed. Testing utilities |