Make pytest runnable from root

Author: mielvds

tests/conftest.py

@@ -58,16 +58,16 @@ def pytest_generate_tests(metafunc):
     if len(tests_arg):
         test_targets = tests_arg
     else:
-        # Default sibling directories used by the original runner
-        sibling_dirs = [
-            '../specifications/json-ld-api/tests/',
-            '../specifications/json-ld-framing/tests/',
-            '../specifications/normalization/tests/',
-        ]
+        # Default sibling directories used by the original runner. Keep the
+        # original relative strings but resolve them relative to this
+        # `conftest.py` so tests can be discovered regardless of cwd.
+        base_path = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
+
         test_targets = []
-        for d in sibling_dirs:
-            if os.path.exists(d):
-                test_targets.append(d)
+        for d in runtests.SIBLING_DIRS:
+            d_path = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(base_path, d))
+            if os.path.exists(d_path):
+                test_targets.append(d_path)
 
     if len(test_targets) == 0:
         pytest.skip('No test manifest or directory specified (use --tests)')

tests/runtests.py

@@ -90,6 +90,12 @@
     'https://github.com/json-ld/normalization/tests'
 ]
 
+SIBLING_DIRS = [
+    '../specifications/json-ld-api/tests/',
+    '../specifications/json-ld-framing/tests/',
+    '../specifications/normalization/tests/',
+]
+
 # NOTE: The following TestRunner class can be removed because pytest now
 # provides the test harness; this class can be removed once the legacy
 # CLI runner is deleted.
@@ -162,12 +168,7 @@ def main(self):
         else:
             # default to find known sibling test dirs
             test_targets = []
-            sibling_dirs = [
-                './specifications/json-ld-api/tests/',
-                './specifications/json-ld-framing/tests/',
-                './specifications/normalization/tests/',
-            ]
-            for dir in sibling_dirs:
+            for dir in SIBLING_DIRS:
                 if os.path.exists(dir):
                     print('Test dir found', dir)
                     test_targets.append(dir)