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I am thinking of writing a plugin that prepopulates tests especially for python projects. i.e. Unit Test section in editor has all the test of the project listed and I could run them. I see there is IdeTestProvider, IdeTestManager and IdeTest in the code but I couldnot figure out how to use them. Is there a way to leverage these just for test collection and run ?

The plugins that already use them seem to be build system such as maven or gradle What I would like to know is if there is a way to just populate tests and run them without build system coming into place ?