List apps that you want to exclude when running manage.py test.

Django-nose test runner allows to skip tests for applications that are listed in INSTALLED_APPS, but are not present in your Django project's directory. However if you prefer to store your own apps on the PYTHONPATH instead of inside your project's directory, they will also be skipped and this well... sucks.

Sometimes tests from a third party app installed installed in your PYTHONPATH fail for no reason, making output of manage.py test noisy and this, well... sucks.

Django-test-exclude is a one-file solution. Just list the packages you want to skip during testing and voilla!

$ pip install django-test-exclude

$ git clone https://github.com/lolek09/django-test-exclude.git

Just add to your settings.py:

TEST_RUNNER = 'django_test_exclude.runners.ExcludeTestSuiteRunner'
TEST_EXCLUDE = (
	'app1',
	'app2',
)

Skipping whole Django test suite:

TEST_EXCLUDE = (
	'django.contrib',
)

Skipping parts of Django test suite:

TEST_EXCLUDE = (
	'django.contrib.messages',
	'django.contrib.sessions',
)

Skipping some third party apps or their subpackages:

TESTS_EXCLUDE = (
	'some_app1',
	'some_app2.subpackage',
)

Happy coding!