python – Running a single test from unittest.TestCase via the command line

python – Running a single test from unittest.TestCase via the command line

This works as you suggest – you just have to specify the class name as well:

python testMyCase.py MyCase.testItIsHot

If you organize your test cases, that is, follow the same organization like the actual code and also use relative imports for modules in the same package, you can also use the following command format:

python -m unittest mypkg.tests.test_module.TestClass.test_method

# In your case, this would be:
python -m unittest testMyCase.MyCase.testItIsHot

Python 3 documentation for this: Command-Line Interface

python – Running a single test from unittest.TestCase via the command line

It can work well as you guess

python testMyCase.py MyCase.testItIsHot

And there is another way to just test testItIsHot:

    suite = unittest.TestSuite()
    suite.addTest(MyCase(testItIsHot))
    runner = unittest.TextTestRunner()
    runner.run(suite)