jayvdb / nose-detecthttp

A nose plugin that can detect tests making external http calls.

nose-detecthttp

A nose plugin that can detect tests making external http calls. Example output:

$ nosetests -v --with-detecthttp myapp/
test_that_makes_request ... ok
test_with_no_request ... ok

======================================================================
FAIL: Tests made external http calls
----------------------------------------------------------------------
- myapp.tests.AppTest:

    test_that_makes_request:
      GET http://example.com

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ran 2 tests in 0.001s

FAILED (failures=1)

Under the hood, this wraps every test in a separate VCR.py cassette. Since VCR.py's hooks are in the stdlib, this approach won't detect requests made with clients like PycURL.