testing fails due to database not being initialized

[frispete]

In an attempt to package horus, I stumbled upon the test suite failing on many tests, which boils down to a missing database initialization:

================================================= test session starts ==================================================
platform linux2 -- Python 2.7.8, pytest-2.8.2, py-1.4.30, pluggy-0.3.1
rootdir: /home/hp/src/obs/home:frispete:python/python-horus/horus-0.9.15, inifile: pytest.ini
plugins: cov-2.2.0
collected 73 items 

horus/tests/test_init.py FF.
horus/tests/test_integration.py ...F..F
horus/tests/test_interfaces.py ..
horus/tests/test_models.py ...FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF.
horus/tests/test_resources.py F
horus/tests/test_schemas.py ..
horus/tests/test_views.py ..FF...F.FFFF..FF.F...F..FFFFFFFFFFF

======================================================= FAILURES =======================================================
____________________________________________ TestInitCase.test_group_finder ____________________________________________

self = <horus.tests.test_init.TestInitCase testMethod=test_group_finder>

    def test_group_finder(self):
        from horus import groupfinder
        from horus.tests.models import User
        from horus.tests.models import Group

        group = Group(name='foo', description='bar')
        user1 = User(username='sontek', email='sontek@gmail.com')
        user1.password = 'foo'
        group.users.append(user1)

        self.session.add(group)
        self.session.add(user1)
>       self.session.flush()

horus/tests/test_init.py:65: 
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/sqlalchemy/orm/session.py:2004: in flush
    self._flush(objects)
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/sqlalchemy/orm/session.py:2122: in _flush
    transaction.rollback(_capture_exception=True)
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/sqlalchemy/util/langhelpers.py:60: in __exit__
    compat.reraise(exc_type, exc_value, exc_tb)
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/sqlalchemy/orm/session.py:2086: in _flush
    flush_context.execute()
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/sqlalchemy/orm/unitofwork.py:373: in execute
    rec.execute(self)
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/sqlalchemy/orm/unitofwork.py:532: in execute
    uow
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/sqlalchemy/orm/persistence.py:174: in save_obj
    mapper, table, insert)
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/sqlalchemy/orm/persistence.py:781: in _emit_insert_statements
    execute(statement, params)
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/sqlalchemy/engine/base.py:914: in execute
    return meth(self, multiparams, params)
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/sqlalchemy/sql/elements.py:323: in _execute_on_connection
    return connection._execute_clauseelement(self, multiparams, params)
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/sqlalchemy/engine/base.py:1010: in _execute_clauseelement
    compiled_sql, distilled_params
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/sqlalchemy/engine/base.py:1146: in _execute_context
    context)
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/sqlalchemy/engine/base.py:1341: in _handle_dbapi_exception
    exc_info
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/sqlalchemy/util/compat.py:199: in raise_from_cause
    reraise(type(exception), exception, tb=exc_tb)
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/sqlalchemy/engine/base.py:1139: in _execute_context
    context)
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self = <sqlalchemy.dialects.sqlite.pysqlite.SQLiteDialect_pysqlite object at 0x7f354db2fd10>
cursor = <sqlite3.Cursor object at 0x7f354db08d50>, statement = 'INSERT INTO "group" (description, name) VALUES (?, ?)'
parameters = ('bar', 'foo'), context = <sqlalchemy.dialects.sqlite.base.SQLiteExecutionContext object at 0x7f354dc90150>

    def do_execute(self, cursor, statement, parameters, context=None):
>       cursor.execute(statement, parameters)
E       OperationalError: (sqlite3.OperationalError) no such table: group [SQL: u'INSERT INTO "group" (description, name) VALUES (?, ?)'] [parameters: (u'bar', u'foo')]

/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/sqlalchemy/engine/default.py:450: OperationalError

and so on. Applying the patch below fixes this for me.

--- horus-0.9.15/horus/tests/__init__.py~       2014-01-19 03:48:10.000000000 +0100
+++ horus-0.9.15/horus/tests/__init__.py        2016-01-07 16:33:59.505228572 +0100
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ class BaseTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
     @classmethod
     def setUpClass(cls):
         cls.engine = engine_from_config(settings, prefix='sqlalchemy.')
+        Base.metadata.create_all(cls.engine)
         cls.Session = sessionmaker()

     def setUp(self):