tox https://pypi.python.org/pypi/tox is a thin wrapper around virtualenv
which let you craft a fresh python environement to execute command in.
It creates the env with virtualenv, install dependencies, run python
setup.py install in it and then execute whatever command you want it to
do and report status.
To do so I simply:
- listed tests dependencies in test-requirements.txt (which are just
nose and mock)
- provide a tox.ini file which describe how to install the dependencies
and execute nosetests
- added the module 'coverage' to the list of test dependencies
To run tests simply:
pip install tox && tox
That will execute the test command 'nosetests' using python2.6 and then
python 2.7.
The additional env 'cover' can be run using: tox -ecover.