Pycharm - no tests were found?

Question

I\'ve been getting a

No tests were found

error in Pycharm and I can\'t figure out why I\'m getting it... this is what I have f

Answer 1

I know it's more than a year since the question was asked, but I had the same issue and that post was the first result in search.

As I understood PyCharm (or Intellij Idea Python plugin) needs your test to meet the following criteria if you want it to be launched when you run all the tests in directory.

1. test functions should start with "test" (underscore is not necessary)
2. the file, containing the test should also start with "test". "Test" (with capital T doesn't work in my case

I'm using Intellij IDEA 2016.3.5 with Python plugin

If you want to run you tests with command line

python -m unittest

Then you should add __init__.py to test directory. Python still wants your test function names to start with "test", and you test file name to start with "test", but in case of files it doesn't care if the first "t" is capital or not. TestCase and test_case is equally fine.

Answer 2

One thing that can also cause this problem is if you have not selected the right testing framework in your settings:

settings > Python Integrated Tools > Testing > Default test runner

All my tests are in pytest, but it was set to unit test