# setup to mark slow tests with @pytest.mark.slow, so that they don't run by # default, but can be forced to run with the command-line option --runslow # taken from # https://docs.pytest.org/en/latest/example/simple.html#control-skipping-of-tests-according-to-command-line-option import pytest def pytest_addoption(parser): parser.addoption("--runslow", action="store_true", default=False, help="run slow tests") def pytest_collection_modifyitems(config, items): if config.getoption("--runslow"): # --runslow given in cli: do not skip slow tests return skip_slow = pytest.mark.skip(reason="need --runslow option to run") for item in items: if "slow" in item.keywords: item.add_marker(skip_slow)