$ nosetests -s -v --with-name-and-docstrings
Above command will show like below output:
test_fail (tests.test_sample.TestSample): This test fails. ... FAIL
test_no_docstring (tests.test_sample.TestSample) ... ok
test_succeed (tests.test_sample.TestSample): This test succeeds. ... ok
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FAIL: test_fail (tests.test_sample.TestSample): This test fails.
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Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/hikaru/nose-custom-docstring/tests/test_sample.py", line 12, in test_fail
self.assertEqual(1, 2)
AssertionError: 1 != 2
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Ran 3 tests in 0.009s
FAILED (failures=1)
Test is described $TEST_NAME: $DOC_STRING.