Hiding class from the test name in pytest

Question

I have a testclass inside a module. Both testclass and module have more or less the same name and I don't expect to have the second class in this module.

My pytest output looks like this:

test_vlans.py::TestVlan::test_normal[delete_vlans] PASSED                              [  4%]
test_vlans.py::TestVlan::test_normal[alter_vlans] PASSED                               [  8%]
test_vlans.py::TestVlan::test_normal[add_vlans] PASSED                                 [ 13%]
test_vlans.py::TestVlan::test_idempotence[delete_vlans] PASSED                         [ 17%]
...

Testclass:

class TestVlan(BasicTestScenario):
    target = "vlans"

I feel like TestVlan is redundant here. How to exclude class name from the test name?

Answer 1

From the naming conventions :

If tests are defined as methods on a class, the class name should start with “Test”, as in TestExample.

From that, I would assume (a) you don't have to call your class TestVlan but (b) you should start with Test , even though you don't have to.