From ec34ed056f2020cb87d605dacedc2253b34133ef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Felipe Monteiro <felipe.monteiro@att.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2018 20:40:32 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Allow tox to support regexes for unit tests

This patch set adds a shell wrapper script to allow
tox to be used to run a subset of unit tests via regexes:

To run all unit tests, execute::

  $ tox -epy35

To run unit tests using a regex, execute::

  $ tox -epy35 -- <regex>

Change-Id: I2ba1e18226d686cb549a075e020ba02e24204829
---
 doc/source/developer-overview.rst | 11 +++++++++++
 tools/gate/run-unit-tests.sh      | 10 ++++++++++
 tox.ini                           |  3 +--
 3 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 create mode 100755 tools/gate/run-unit-tests.sh

diff --git a/doc/source/developer-overview.rst b/doc/source/developer-overview.rst
index 1e69df9d..c4c2671d 100644
--- a/doc/source/developer-overview.rst
+++ b/doc/source/developer-overview.rst
@@ -124,6 +124,17 @@ All Pegleg tests are nested under ``tests``.
 Pegleg comes equipped with a number of `tox`_ targets for running unit tests,
 as well as `pep8`_ and `Bandit`_ checks.
 
+Unit Tests
+----------
+
+To run all unit tests, execute::
+
+  $ tox -epy35
+
+To run unit tests using a regex, execute::
+
+  $ tox -epy35 -- <regex>
+
 .. _Airship: https://airshipit.readthedocs.io
 .. _Deckhand: https://airship-deckhand.readthedocs.io/
 .. _Airship coding conventions: https://airshipit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/conventions.html
diff --git a/tools/gate/run-unit-tests.sh b/tools/gate/run-unit-tests.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..15042fe8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/gate/run-unit-tests.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+set -e
+posargs=$@
+if [ ${#posargs} -ge 1 ]; then
+    pytest -k  ${posargs}
+else
+    pytest
+fi
+set +e
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index da840ed2..c4db8da4 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -18,8 +18,7 @@ whitelist_externals =
   find
 commands =
   find . -type f -name "*.pyc" -delete
-  pytest \
-    {posargs}
+  {toxinidir}/tools/gate/run-unit-tests.sh '{posargs}'
 
 [testenv:fmt]
 basepython=python3