Configure Pytest discovery to ignore class name

Question

Pytest\'s default discovery rules will import all Class starting with Test that do not have an __init__(). I have a situation where this causes an

Answer 1

Here is a simple solution that I use, but has some overhead.

class DisablePyTestCollectionMixin(object):
  __test__ = False

class TestimonialFactory(DisablePyTestCollectionMixin):
  pass

Based on: https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/1879