New to pyCharm - Getting started not working

I just downloaded pyCharm v1.5.4, I went to this Jetbrains video - http://tv.jetbrains.net/videocontent/getting-started-with-pycharm

This has you start by creating a project, and writing a test... pretty straight forward.  However, even though my code mimics what's on the screen, I keep getting "no tests were found"

Here's the code:

from unittest import TestCase

class Conference(object):

    def get_talk_at(self, time):

        pass   

class ConferenceTest(TestCase):

    def test_empty(self):

        c = Conference()

        self.assertEqual(None,c.get_talk_at(10))

In the video he runs this with CTRL-SHFT-F10 (doesn't work on mine but I'd imagine that's just because which keyboard I chose) but if I go right-click the folder and select "Run Unittests in '...'" it runs, just nothing is found.

On a side note, Is there a explicit declaration I can make on a test that says "hey this is a test", kinda like NUnits [TestFixture] or [Test]?  How does pycharm/python determine what methods are tests?

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Okay, changed my Keymap in the settings to "Default", came back, used the CTRL-SHFT-F10 to run the tests, and something happened (test failed, but that's a different issue).  However, going to the project, right clicking the folder, and selecting "Run unitests in .." option still shows "no tests were found"

What's going on? I don't like that it's auto-magically happening with the keyboard press but not happening through the context menu... Any help would be appreciated.

UPDATE: If I right click the .py file in the folder, it runs the tests, just like the CTRL-SHFT-F10 work.  Not sure why the option from the folder level doesn't work

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Hi MikeM,

This happens bacause of the name of the test file.
Python unittests use "test.*" pattern to collect tests from the directory (http://docs.python.org/library/unittest.html#test-discovery).
If you want to collect tests regardless test name – just check pattern checkbox in run configuration and write ".*" as pattern.

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Thanks for that.

So putting in the pattern worked, regardless of file name.  I'm assuming at that point it's just looking for any class that inherits unittest.case.TestCase?

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Yes, it works the same way as unittests and attaches nice tree view of results.

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