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Examples

These snippets show testrelic-pytest in common situations. In each case the plugin is already installed, so there is nothing to import.

Plain unit-test suite

A normal pytest suite needs no changes — install the package, set your key, and run.

tests/test_math.py
def test_addition():
assert 1 + 1 == 2


def test_subtraction():
assert 5 - 2 == 3
Terminal
export TESTRELIC_API_KEY=tr_live_...
pytest

These are reported as standard tests.

httpx API test (auto-classified)

A test that makes an httpx call is automatically classified as a rest API test and opens the API Session Workspace.

tests/test_api.py
import httpx


def test_create_user():
response = httpx.post(
"https://api.example.com/users",
json={"name": "Ada"},
)
assert response.status_code == 201

No marker or decorator is needed — the HTTP call is detected automatically.

Per-stage run-type

Use --testrelic-pytest-run-type to bucket runs by CI stage on the dashboard:

Smoke stage
pytest --testrelic-pytest-run-type smoke
Nightly stage
pytest --testrelic-pytest-run-type nightly

GitHub Actions step

.github/workflows/tests.yml
- name: Run tests with TestRelic
env:
TESTRELIC_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.TESTRELIC_API_KEY }}
run: |
pip install testrelic-pytest
pytest --testrelic-pytest-run-type ci

CI metadata (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, CircleCI) and git branch/commit/author are detected automatically. See GitHub Actions integration for more.

tip

Running across multiple workers with pytest -n 4 is supported — only the controller uploads results.

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