nose provides an alternate test discovery and running process for unittest, one that is intended to mimic the behavior of py.test as much as is reasonably possible without resorting to magic. By default, nose will run tests in files or directories under the current working directory whose names include "test". nose also supports doctest tests and may optionally provide a test coverage report. WWW: http://somethingaboutorange.com/mrl/projects/nose/