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Plain 'pytest' at the repo top level now runs the integration suite alongside the unit tests: the flask server from server.py starts in a background thread on a random port (one per pytest-xdist worker) and each test_*.tavern.yaml file runs in a pytest subprocess via the pytester plugin.

The tox-integration generic/noextra envs keep the docker compose setup as a mirror, still exercising the tavern-ci CLI and tavern.core.run entrypoints; a TAVERN_INTEGRATION_ALLOW_COLLECT env var switches the directory between collecting the yaml files directly (tox/docker) and collecting only the pytester runner (default).

The hardcoded http://localhost:5003 in the yaml config files now comes from the TEST_HOST env var so the same tests work against either server.

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  • Documentation

    • Clarified how to run unit, HTTP integration, Docker-based, and full example test suites.
    • Documented separate integration-test modes, including automatic background-server setup.
  • Tests

    • Improved integration-test execution with dynamic hosts and automatically assigned server ports.
    • Added coverage for integration suites and enabled parallel test execution.
    • Improved reliability when validating invalid YAML schemas.
  • Examples

    • Updated the Allure example to use host port 5004.

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The change adds background-thread integration servers, subprocess-based YAML execution, configurable test hosts, parallel pytest execution, subprocess coverage, and updated Docker, documentation, and collection settings.

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Integration test execution

Layer / File(s) Summary
Background server and subprocess integration flow
tests/integration/server.py, tests/integration/conftest.py, tests/integration/test_run_integration_suite.py, tests/integration/*.yaml
The Flask server runs on an available port. The integration runner passes TEST_HOST to pytest subprocesses that execute each YAML suite.
Pytest and coverage execution
pyproject.toml, scripts/coverage.sh, .github/workflows/main.yml, tests/unit/test_schema.py
Pytest collects integration tests, coverage records subprocesses, CI uses three workers, and schema tests patch empty-scalar handling deterministically.
Execution configuration and example endpoints
README.md, tests/integration/README.md, tox-integration.ini, example/allure/*
Documentation separates background-server and Docker execution. Docker collection is enabled for selected environments, and the Allure example uses host port 5004.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 5e5c2

The generic integration environment currently executes the YAML suite twice, increasing CI time and potentially repeating state-changing requests. This should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merging.

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  participant Developer
  participant Pytest
  participant IntegrationRunner
  participant FlaskServer
  Developer->>Pytest: run integration tests
  Pytest->>IntegrationRunner: collect YAML runner
  IntegrationRunner->>FlaskServer: start background server
  FlaskServer-->>IntegrationRunner: return available host and port
  IntegrationRunner->>Pytest: run YAML file in subprocess
  Pytest->>FlaskServer: send HTTP requests
  FlaskServer-->>Pytest: return test responses
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In `@tox-integration.ini`:
- Line 17: Update the py3-generic test configuration to run the generic YAML
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the redundant generic-specific pytest command. Preserve the tavern-ci and
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michaelboulton force-pushed the feat/integration-tests-use-pytester branch from 5e5c2c2 to 7d9dfed Compare August 31, 2026 13:24
Plain 'pytest' at the repo top level now runs the integration suite
alongside the unit tests: the flask server from server.py starts in a
background thread on a random port (one per pytest-xdist worker) and
each test_*.tavern.yaml file runs in a pytest subprocess via the
pytester plugin.

The tox-integration generic/noextra envs keep the docker compose setup
as a mirror, still exercising the tavern-ci CLI and tavern.core.run
entrypoints; a TAVERN_INTEGRATION_ALLOW_COLLECT env var switches the
directory between collecting the yaml files directly (tox/docker) and
collecting only the pytester runner (default).

The hardcoded http://localhost:5003 in the yaml config files now comes
from the TEST_HOST env var so the same tests work against either server.
…nd combine coverage

Disabling hypothesis/xdist/allure/asyncio/anyio/faker/random_order in the
per-yaml-file pytest subprocesses cuts the integration suite from ~41s to
~30s, since plugin loading dominated the subprocess startup time.

Coverage is now measured across the unit tests and the integration
subprocesses in one top-level run: pytest-cov 7 dropped its own subprocess
support, so use coverage.py's native 'patch = ["subprocess"]' with
'parallel = true' and let pytest-cov combine the parallel data files.
scripts/coverage.sh becomes a single 'pytest --cov tavern' invocation
instead of running two docker tox envs and hand-combining data files.
The empty-value BadSchemaError only exists once YamlItem's constructor has
globally patched yaml.parser.Parser.process_empty_scalar, so these tests
silently relied on an earlier test in the same process constructing a
YamlItem. Under pytest-xdist a worker can run them first, making them flaky.
Apply the parser patch deterministically with an autouse fixture instead.
The unit-tests job now runs the top-level pytest suite (which includes
tests/integration) with -n 3; each xdist worker starts its own integration
server on a random port so the runner tests parallelize safely. Cuts the
suite from ~64s to ~26s locally.
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michaelboulton force-pushed the feat/integration-tests-use-pytester branch from 88ac955 to cf35f9f Compare September 11, 2026 06:17
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