[Neuroimaging] advice on choosing a testing library

Ariel Rokem arokem at gmail.com
Fri Jun 17 10:39:18 EDT 2016


On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 7:25 AM, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:

> AFAICT, literally everyone uses pytest, so that's what I've been moving
> to. It's fine.
>
+1. No problems with pytest so far (it's been just a few months for me
working with it).

Now also moving shablona to recommend that (
https://github.com/uwescience/shablona/pull/42) following Matthew's comment
the other day.

I don't have anything more clever to say about "how to choose", though.


> On Jun 17, 2016 06:35, "Satrajit Ghosh" <satra at mit.edu> wrote:
>
> hi folks,
>
> in nipype and other nipy projects we have used nose forever, but as
> matthew noted, nose will likely not be maintained in the future. python now
> has a unittest framework built into the standard library, and a large
> number of other testing frameworks.
>
> https://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonTestingToolsTaxonomy
>
> are there suggestions on how one might make the decision on which
> framework to choose?
>
> cheers,
>
> satra
>
>
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