[IPython-dev] Fwd: [TIP] py.test 1.0 release / remarks

Ondrej Certik ondrej at certik.cz
Tue Aug 4 15:57:26 EDT 2009


On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Fernando Perez<fperez.net at gmail.com> wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> not that I'm advocating any changes *now*, but this might be worth
> looking into.  I think nose and py.test share some ancestry, and it
> seems that py.test is maturing nicely.  I especially like the
> 'funcargs' way of writing parametric tests without 'yield': I use
> parametric tests *a lot*, but they are extremely hard to debug when
> they break, because of how nose runs them.
>
> Just a note for the scratchpad :)

Py.test is way better imho, if nothing, just the nice error reporting.
I will have a look if I can contribute the green [OK] results, I just
can't live without it. Otherwise I think it's pretty good.


Ondrej



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