Circumvent freezegun in favor of a real clock where possible

tests/builder_test.py

@@ -4,8 +4,10 @@
 
 import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
 from xml.dom.minidom import Document
+from freezegun import freeze_time
 
 from xmlrunner import builder
+import time
 
 
 class TestXMLContextTest(unittest.TestCase):
@@ -88,6 +90,19 @@ def test_add_timestamp_attribute_on_end_context(self):
 
         element.attributes['timestamp'].value
 
+    @freeze_time('2012-12-21')
+    def test_time_and_timestamp_attributes_are_not_affected_by_freezegun(self):
+        self.root.begin('testsuite', 'name')
+        time.sleep(.015)
+        element = self.root.end()
+
+        current_year = int(element.attributes['timestamp'].value[:4])
+        self.assertGreater(current_year, 2012)
+        self.assertLess(current_year, 2100)
+
+        current_time = float(element.attributes['time'].value)
+        self.assertGreater(current_time, .012)
+        self.assertLess(current_time, .020)
 
 class TestXMLBuilderTest(unittest.TestCase):
     """TestXMLBuilder test cases.

tests/testsuite.py

@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@
 import os
 import os.path
 from unittest import mock
+from time import sleep
+from freezegun import freeze_time
+import re
 
 
 def _load_schema(version):
@@ -116,6 +119,9 @@ def test_non_ascii_skip(self):
         def test_pass(self):
             pass
 
+        def test_pass_after_30ms(self):
+            sleep(.030)
+
         def test_fail(self):
             self.assertTrue(False)
 
@@ -733,6 +739,24 @@ def test_xmlrunner_elapsed_times(self):
         suite.addTest(self.DummyTest('test_pass'))
         self._test_xmlrunner(suite)
 
+    @freeze_time('2012-12-21')
+    def test_xmlrunner_time_measurement_unaffected_by_freezegun(self):
+        suite = unittest.TestSuite()
+        outdir = BytesIO()
+        suite.addTest(self.DummyTest('test_pass_after_30ms'))
+        runner = xmlrunner.XMLTestRunner(
+            stream=self.stream, output=outdir, verbosity=self.verbosity,
+            **self.runner_kwargs)
+        runner.run(suite)
+        outdir.seek(0)
+        output = outdir.read()
+        match = re.search(br'time="(.+?)"', output)
+        self.assertIsNotNone(match)
+        time_value = float(match.group(1))
+        # Provide a generous margin for this 30ms test to make flakes unlikely.
+        self.assertGreater(time_value, 0.025)
+        self.assertLess(time_value, 0.050)
+
     def test_xmlrunner_resultclass(self):
         class Result(_XMLTestResult):
             pass

tox.ini

@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ deps =
     djangocurr: django>=2.2.0
     pytest: pytest
     lxml>=3.6.0
+    freezegun
 commands =
     coverage run --append setup.py test
     coverage report --omit='.tox/*'

xmlrunner/builder.py

@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
 import re
 import sys
 import datetime
-import time
 
 from xml.dom.minidom import Document
 
+from .time import get_real_time_if_possible
+
 
 __all__ = ('TestXMLBuilder', 'TestXMLContext')
 
@@ -72,13 +73,13 @@ def begin(self, tag, name):
         """
         self.element = self.xml_doc.createElement(tag)
         self.element.setAttribute('name', replace_nontext(name))
-        self._start_time = time.time()
+        self._start_time = get_real_time_if_possible()
 
     def end(self):
         """Closes this context (started with a call to `begin`) and creates an
         attribute for each counter and another for the elapsed time.
         """
-        self._stop_time = time.time()
+        self._stop_time = get_real_time_if_possible()
         self.element.setAttribute('time', self.elapsed_time())
         self.element.setAttribute('timestamp', self.timestamp())
         self._set_result_counters()

xmlrunner/result.py

@@ -9,9 +9,7 @@
 from os import path
 from io import StringIO
 
-# use direct import to bypass freezegun
-from time import time
-
+from .time import get_real_time_if_possible
 from .unittest import TestResult, _TextTestResult, failfast
 
 
@@ -253,7 +251,7 @@ def startTest(self, test):
         """
         Called before execute each test method.
         """
-        self.start_time = time()
+        self.start_time = get_real_time_if_possible()
         TestResult.startTest(self, test)
 
         try:
@@ -321,7 +319,8 @@ def stopTest(self, test):
         # self._stderr_data = sys.stderr.getvalue()
 
         _TextTestResult.stopTest(self, test)
-        self.stop_time = time()
+
+        self.stop_time = get_real_time_if_possible()
 
         if self.callback and callable(self.callback):
             self.callback()

xmlrunner/runner.py

@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
 
 import argparse
 import sys
+
 import time
 
+from .time import get_real_time_if_possible
 from .unittest import TextTestRunner, TestProgram
 from .result import _XMLTestResult
 
@@ -15,7 +17,7 @@ class XMLTestRunner(TextTestRunner):
     """
     A test runner class that outputs the results in JUnit like XML files.
     """
-    def __init__(self, output='.', outsuffix=None, 
+    def __init__(self, output='.', outsuffix=None,
                  elapsed_times=True, encoding=UTF8,
                  resultclass=None,
                  **kwargs):
@@ -62,9 +64,9 @@ def run(self, test):
             self.stream.writeln(result.separator2)
 
             # Execute tests
-            start_time = time.time()
+            start_time = get_real_time_if_possible()
             test(result)
-            stop_time = time.time()
+            stop_time = get_real_time_if_possible()
             time_taken = stop_time - start_time
 
             # Print results

xmlrunner/time.py

@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+"""Timing function that will attempt to circumvent freezegun and other common
+techniques of mocking time in Python unit tests; will only succeed at this on
+Unix currently. Falls back to regular time.time().
+"""
+
+import time
+
+def get_real_time_if_possible():
+    if hasattr(time, 'clock_gettime'):
+        try:
+            return time.clock_gettime(time.CLOCK_REALTIME)
+        except OSError:
+            # would occur if time.CLOCK_REALTIME is not available, for example
+            pass
+    return time.time()