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Distributed testing (xdist)
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"load" mode
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Distributed testing with dist mode set to load will report on the combined coverage of all slaves.
The slaves may be spread out over any number of hosts and each slave may be located anywhere on the
file system.  Each slave will have its subprocesses measured.

Running distributed testing with dist mode set to load::

    pytest --cov=myproj -n 2 tests/

Shows a terminal report::

    -------------------- coverage: platform linux2, python 2.6.4-final-0 ---------------------
    Name                 Stmts   Miss  Cover
    ----------------------------------------
    myproj/__init__          2      0   100%
    myproj/myproj          257     13    94%
    myproj/feature4286      94      7    92%
    ----------------------------------------
    TOTAL                  353     20    94%


Again but spread over different hosts and different directories::

    pytest --cov=myproj --dist load
            --tx ssh=memedough@host1//chdir=testenv1
            --tx ssh=memedough@host2//chdir=/tmp/testenv2//python=/tmp/env1/bin/python
            --rsyncdir myproj --rsyncdir tests --rsync examples
            tests/

Shows a terminal report::

    -------------------- coverage: platform linux2, python 2.6.4-final-0 ---------------------
    Name                 Stmts   Miss  Cover
    ----------------------------------------
    myproj/__init__          2      0   100%
    myproj/myproj          257     13    94%
    myproj/feature4286      94      7    92%
    ----------------------------------------
    TOTAL                  353     20    94%


"each" mode
===========

Distributed testing with dist mode set to each will report on the combined coverage of all slaves.
Since each slave is running all tests this allows generating a combined coverage report for multiple
environments.

Running distributed testing with dist mode set to each::

    pytest --cov=myproj --dist each
            --tx popen//chdir=/tmp/testenv3//python=/usr/local/python27/bin/python
            --tx ssh=memedough@host2//chdir=/tmp/testenv4//python=/tmp/env2/bin/python
            --rsyncdir myproj --rsyncdir tests --rsync examples
            tests/

Shows a terminal report::

    ---------------------------------------- coverage ----------------------------------------
                              platform linux2, python 2.6.5-final-0
                              platform linux2, python 2.7.0-final-0
    Name                 Stmts   Miss  Cover
    ----------------------------------------
    myproj/__init__          2      0   100%
    myproj/myproj          257     13    94%
    myproj/feature4286      94      7    92%
    ----------------------------------------
    TOTAL                  353     20    94%