I have my tests for a Django application in a tests directory:
my_project/apps/my_app/ ├── __init__.py ├── tests │ ├── __init__.py │ ├── field_tests.py │ └
nose will pick automatically, if you add test = True in the beginning of module and if your methods starts with test_
see how nose detects tests http://nose.readthedocs.io/en/latest/finding_tests.html