Fix #771: attr plugin is broken when parent overrides child method

The issue is when the parent and child have different attributes, and
the parent method was being bypassed because of the attribute selection.
In this case, Nose would incorrectly use the version from the base
class, even though it was supposed to skip the method entirely.

To fix this, we need simply need to stop digging through base classes.
The dir() method returns a flattened set of methods, so there's no need
to iterate through the base classes trying to dig up all the methods.
Moreover, it leads to false positives since we were not keeping track of
methods seen on the parent classes.  As a result, we'd incorrectly
select a test for inclusion (using attributes), or we'd pick up a method
that we should've ignored (like runTest in a Twisted test case).

Thanks to Thomas Grainger for providing a test case!

CHANGELOG

@@ -64,6 +64,9 @@ In Development
 - Display the report summary and stack traces even if Ctrl-C was pressed
   during the test run.
   Patch by Kevin Qiu.
+- Fix #771: attr plugin is broken when parent and child share same method
+  name with different attributes
+  Patch by John Szakmeister.  Test case provided by Thomas Grainger.
 
 1.3.0
 

functional_tests/support/issue771/test.py

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+from nose.plugins.attrib import attr
+
+from unittest import TestCase
+
+@attr("b")
+def test_b():
+    assert 1 == 1
+
+class TestBase(TestCase):
+    def test_a(self):
+        assert 1 == 1
+
+class TestDerived(TestBase):
+    @attr("a")
+    def test_a(self):
+        assert 1 == 1

functional_tests/test_attribute_plugin.py

@@ -156,6 +156,20 @@ def verify(self):
         assert 'test_case_three' not in self.output
 
 
+# Issue #771
+class TestTopLevelNotSelected(AttributePluginTester):
+    suitepath = os.path.join(support, 'issue771')
+    args = ["-a", "!a"]
+
+    def verify(self):
+        # Note: a failure here may mean that the test case selection is broken
+        # rather than the attribute plugin, but the issue more easily manifests
+        # itself when using attributes.
+        assert 'test.test_b ... ok' in self.output
+        assert 'test_a (test.TestBase) ... ok' in self.output
+        assert 'TestDerived' not in self.output
+
+
 if compat_24:
     class TestAttributeEval(AttributePluginTester):
         args = ["-A", "c>20"]

functional_tests/test_program.py

@@ -113,16 +113,8 @@ def test_run_support_twist(self):
         print "-----"
         print repr(res)
 
-        # some versions of twisted.trial.unittest.TestCase have
-        # runTest in the base class -- this is wrong! But we have
-        # to deal with it
-        if hasattr(TestCase, 'runTest'):
-            expect = 5
-        else:
-            expect = 4
-        self.assertEqual(res.testsRun, expect,
-                         "Expected to run %s tests, ran %s" %
-                         (expect, res.testsRun))
+        self.assertEqual(res.testsRun, 4,
+                         "Expected to run 4 tests, ran %s" % (res.testsRun,))
         assert not res.wasSuccessful()
         assert len(res.errors) == 1
 

nose/loader.py

@@ -104,19 +104,17 @@ def getTestCaseNames(self, testCaseClass):
         """
         if self.config.getTestCaseNamesCompat:
             return unittest.TestLoader.getTestCaseNames(self, testCaseClass)
-        
+
         def wanted(attr, cls=testCaseClass, sel=self.selector):
             item = getattr(cls, attr, None)
             if isfunction(item):
                 item = unbound_method(cls, item)
             elif not ismethod(item):
                 return False
             return sel.wantMethod(item)
+
         cases = filter(wanted, dir(testCaseClass))
-        for base in testCaseClass.__bases__:
-            for case in self.getTestCaseNames(base):
-                if case not in cases:
-                    cases.append(case)
+
         # add runTest if nothing else picked
         if not cases and hasattr(testCaseClass, 'runTest'):
             cases = ['runTest']