[scikit-image] Important change in testing environment

[Stefan van der Walt]

On Wed, Apr 12, 2017, at 01:46, Egor Panfilov wrote:

> We'd like to notify your that we have just finished a transition of
> our testing environment from `nose` to `pytest` (see
> https://github.com/scikit-image/scikit-image/pull/2468 for the
> details).
> 

> We kindly ask you to revisit your open Pull Requests on GitHub,
> perform a rebase onto `master` branch of `scikit-image/scikit-image`
> repo (see
> http://scikit-image.org/docs/dev/contribute.html#divergence-between-upstream-master-and-your-feature-branch),
> and rewrite your tests using `pytest` wherever is needed.
> 

> Usage of the functions from `numpy.testing` in addition to `pytest`
> ones is allowed, but, please, notice that some of them (such as
> `assert_raises`) rely on `nose` under the hood, and, therefore, should
> not be used.


Thanks for the reminder, Egor.



The changes will, hopefully, be minimal from the developer perspective.
And we're working on another PR that exposes all of the test utilities
under `skimage.util`, to simplify matters.


Best regards

Stéfan
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