Question

I’m using Tox to check that the system I’m developing is behaving well when installed in a fresh environment (+ sanity checking the setup.py file). However, the system uses a memcached server, and ideally I’d like to spawn a new one for every Tox run.

Is there a preferred way to start programs before tests are run (and shut them down afterwards) or will I need to write a custom runner?

Edit: The test runner is py.test

Answer 1

This isn’t really a task for tox. My recommendation is that you do this in the setup functions/methods of the actual unit testing framework (py.test, nose, unittests, …) you are using with tox.

Original poster’s comment:

pytest_configure and pytest_unconfigure in conftest.py was a
good place to spawn/terminate.