#!/usr/bin/env python
# This file is closely based on tests.py from matplotlib
#
# This allows running the matplotlib tests from the command line: e.g.
#
#   $ python tests.py -v -d
#
# The arguments are identical to the arguments accepted by nosetests.
#
# See https://nose.readthedocs.org/ for a detailed description of
# these options.
import nose
from databroker.testing.noseclasses import KnownFailure

plugins = [KnownFailure]
env = {"NOSE_WITH_COVERAGE": 1,
       'NOSE_COVER_PACKAGE': ['databroker'],
       'NOSE_COVER_HTML': 1}
# Nose doesn't automatically instantiate all of the plugins in the
# child processes, so we have to provide the multiprocess plugin with
# a list.
from nose.plugins import multiprocess
multiprocess._instantiate_plugins = plugins


def run():
    nose.main(addplugins=[x() for x in plugins], env=env)


if __name__ == '__main__':
    run()

#!/usr/bin/env python
import sys
import pytest

if __name__ == '__main__':
    # show output results from every test function
    args = ['-v']
    # show the message output for skipped and expected failure tests
    args.append('-rxs')
    args.extend(sys.argv[1:])
    # call pytest and exit with the return code from pytest so that
    # travis will fail correctly if tests fail
    sys.exit(pytest.main(args))

Use pytest run script