add warning to skipping docs re marker inheritance

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Joe Hamman 2017-09-08 12:01:33 -07:00
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@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ by calling the ``pytest.skip(reason)`` function:
if not valid_config():
pytest.skip("unsupported configuration")
The imperative method is useful when it is not possible to evaluate the skip condition
The imperative method is useful when it is not possible to evaluate the skip condition
during import time.
``skipif``
@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ when run on a Python3.3 interpreter::
...
If the condition evaluates to ``True`` during collection, the test function will be skipped,
with the specified reason appearing in the summary when using ``-rs``.
with the specified reason appearing in the summary when using ``-rs``.
You can share ``skipif`` markers between modules. Consider this test module::
@ -118,6 +118,12 @@ You can use the ``skipif`` marker (as any other marker) on classes::
If the condition is ``True``, this marker will produce a skip result for
each of the test methods of that class.
.. warning::
The use of ``skipif`` on classes that use inheritance is strongly
discouraged. `A Known bug <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/568>`_
in pytest's markers may cause unexpected behavior in super classes.
If you want to skip all test functions of a module, you may use
the ``pytestmark`` name on the global level:
@ -305,12 +311,12 @@ Running it with the report-on-xfail option gives this output::
platform linux -- Python 3.x.y, pytest-3.x.y, py-1.x.y, pluggy-0.x.y
rootdir: $REGENDOC_TMPDIR/example, inifile:
collected 7 items
xfail_demo.py xxxxxxx
======= short test summary info ========
XFAIL xfail_demo.py::test_hello
XFAIL xfail_demo.py::test_hello2
reason: [NOTRUN]
reason: [NOTRUN]
XFAIL xfail_demo.py::test_hello3
condition: hasattr(os, 'sep')
XFAIL xfail_demo.py::test_hello4
@ -320,7 +326,7 @@ Running it with the report-on-xfail option gives this output::
XFAIL xfail_demo.py::test_hello6
reason: reason
XFAIL xfail_demo.py::test_hello7
======= 7 xfailed in 0.12 seconds ========
.. _`skip/xfail with parametrize`:
@ -346,5 +352,3 @@ test instances when using parametrize:
])
def test_increment(n, expected):
assert n + 1 == expected