pytest - Tox: different test sets during local and gitlab CI runs

Question

A subset of pytest tests cannot run on gitlab due to dependencies on locally ran services. How can I exclude them from gitlab CI pipelines while keeping them for local testing? I am not sure if the filtering needs to be done in pytest, tox or gitlab config.

Current configuration:

tox.ini

[testenv]
commands = pytest {posargs}

gitlab-ci.yml


build:
    stage: build
    script:
        - tox

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65648528/tox-different-test-sets-during-local-and-gitlab-ci-runs

Answer 1

The most convenient way of doing that is dynamically through pytest

def test_function():
    if not valid_config():
        pytest.xfail("unsupported configuration")

https://docs.pytest.org/en/latest/skipping.html