Pytest does support unittest-based tests <https://docs.pytest.org/en/latest/unittest.html>, allowing for incremental adoption. I'll see how convenient it is to use with our current test layout.
On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 1:03 AM Hyukjin Kwon <gurwls...@gmail.com> wrote: > For me, I would like this if this can be done with relatively small > changes. > How about adding more granular options, for example, specifying or > filtering smaller set of test goals in the run-tests.py script? > I think it'd be quite small change and we could roughly reach this goal if > I understood correctly. > > > 2017-08-15 3:06 GMT+09:00 Nicholas Chammas <nicholas.cham...@gmail.com>: > >> Say you’re working on something and you want to rerun the PySpark tests, >> focusing on a specific test or group of tests. Is there a way to do that? >> >> I know that you can test entire modules with this: >> >> ./python/run-tests --modules pyspark-sql >> >> But I’m looking for something more granular, like pytest’s -k option. >> >> On that note, does anyone else think it would be valuable to use a test >> runner like pytest to run our Python tests? The biggest benefits would be >> the use of fixtures <https://docs.pytest.org/en/latest/fixture.html>, >> and more flexibility on test running and reporting. Just wondering if we’ve >> already considered this. >> >> Nick >> >> > >
