# Configuring pytest-dependency

This section explains configuration options for pytest-dependency, but also options for pytest itself or other plugins that are recommended for the use with pytest-dependency.

## Notes on configuration for other plugins

pytest-xdist

  Test run parallelization in pytest-xdist is incompatible with pytest-dependency, see Interaction with other packages. By default, parallelization is disabled in pytest-xdist (–dist=no). You are advised to leave this default.

## Configuration file options

Configuration file options can be set in the ini file.

minversion

  This is a builtin configuration option of pytest itself. Since pytest-dependency requires pytest 3.6.0 or newer, it is recommended to set this option accordingly, either to 3.6.0 or to a newer version, if required by your test code.

automark_dependency

  This is a flag. If set to False, the default, the outcome of a test will only be registered if the test has been decorated with the `pytest.mark.dependency()` marker. As a results, all tests, the dependencies and the dependent tests must be decorated. If set to True, the outcome of all tests will be registered. It has the same effect as implicitly decorating all tests with `pytest.mark.dependency()`.

  Added in version 0.3.

## Command line options

The following command line options are added by pytest.dependency:

–ignore-unknown-dependency

  By default, a test will be skipped unless all the dependencies have been run successful. If this option is set, a test will be skipped if any of the dependencies has been skipped or failed. E.g. dependencies that have not been run at all will be ignored.

  This may be useful if you run only a subset of the testsuite and some tests in the selected set are marked to depend on other tests that have not been selected.

  Added in version 0.3.