Autouse

It is possible to apply a fixture to all of the tests in a hierarchy, even if the tests don't explicitly request a fixture, by passing autouse=True to the @pytest.fixture decorator. This is useful when we need to apply a side-effect before and/or after each test unconditionally.

@pytest.fixture(autouse=True)
def setup_dev_environment():
    previous = os.environ.get('APP_ENV', '')
    os.environ['APP_ENV'] = 'TESTING'
    yield
    os.environ['APP_ENV'] = previous

 

An autouse fixture is applied to all tests which the fixture is available for use with:

• Same module as the fixture
• Same class as the fixture, in the case of a fixture defined by a method
• Tests in the same directory or below, if the fixture is defined in a conftest.py file

In other words, if a test can access an autouse fixture by declaring it in the parameter list, the autouse fixture will be automatically used by that test. Note that it is possible for a test function to add the autouse fixture to its parameter list if it is...