Watson-CT

Watson

Watson is a continuous unit test runner for django. As long as the script is running, it will monitor for changes in your code and re-run your test suite when needed.

Features

• Monitor source code and run tests on change
• OSX notifications
• Colored test output

Installation

Watson can be installed from PyPI using easy_install::

$ easy_install Watson-CT

or pip::

$ pip install Watson-CT

Setup

To setup Watson under Django add watson to your INSTALLED_APPS setting. The run manage.py drwatson to start the tester process. You can give an application label or test name using the same format as the built-in test command.

Options

``--nocolor`` : *flag, default: False*
    Disable colored output.

``-u``, ``--ui`` : *default: autodetect*
    Force the use of a specific UI module. Available options are ``osx``, ``growl2`` and ``none``.


UIs
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Watson provides a UI to indicate the current test status after each run, even
if the console is in the background.

OSX
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The default UI on OS X uses terminal-notifier. A Native OSX notification is
posted after each test run. It requires [`terminal-notifier`][HOMEPAGE] command-line tool

Growl 2

Use Growl 2 via AppleScript. A Growl 2 notification is posted after each test run. It requires https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/growl/id467939042