Also, since we like pytest so much, they will have a sprint in June and set up a indiegogo campaign to help covering costs: http://pytest.org/latest/announce/sprint2016.html
On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 3:56 PM, Matt Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > +1 for pytest, it's one of my favorite Python libraries. > > On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 3:40 PM Luiz Irber <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hypothesis is quite cool, but it is not a test runner (and it does >> take way more thinking about tests than traditional unit tests). It >> does work very well with pytest and nose, tho. >> >> Some pointers for hypothesis: >> https://github.com/dib-lab/khmer/issues/990 >> >> https://github.com/luizirber/khmer/blob/feature/hypothesis/tests/test_hypothesis.py >> >> >> >> On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 3:36 PM, C. Titus Brown <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Hypothesis is about property-based testing, and only partially overlaps >> > with >> > standard testing functionality. >> > >> > Luiz Irber in my lab gave a presentation a few weeks back on applying it >> > to khmer: >> > >> > >> > https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1GIrb9pMvfto-reHc_85yqnlSrOFexsgGwue1YPrx5H0/edit >> > >> > best, >> > --titus >> > >> > On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 06:33:34PM -0500, Maxime Boissonneault wrote: >> >> I have heard much good about Hypothesis >> >> (https://hypothesis.readthedocs.org/en/latest/). >> >> >> >> >> >> https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2zw41r/hypothesis_is_an_advanced_quickcheck_style/ >> >> >> >> Maxime >> >> >> >> Le 2016-02-10 18:24, W. Trevor King a ?crit : >> >>> On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 02:07:20PM -0800, Steven Haddock wrote: >> >>>> I think this has been discussed before (maybe even raised by me?), >> >>>> but what is the current favorite test library for python, since that >> >>>> nose and nose2 are not being maintained. >> >>>> ? >> >>>> A priority would be minimal boilerplate required? >> >>> Python's builtin unittest supports automatic test discovery since v3.2 >> >>> [1], and subtests (new in v3.4 [2]) address my most common boilerplate >> >>> concerns from Python 2. I don't find defining TestCase subclasses to >> >>> be that big a drag ;). >> >>> >> >>> Cheers, >> >>> Trevor >> >>> >> >>> [1]: >> >>> https://docs.python.org/3/library/unittest.html#unittest-test-discovery >> >>> [2]: >> >>> https://docs.python.org/3/library/unittest.html#distinguishing-test-iterations-using-subtests >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> _______________________________________________ >> >>> Discuss mailing list >> >>> [email protected] >> >>> >> >>> http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> --------------------------------- >> >> Maxime Boissonneault >> >> Analyste de calcul - Calcul Qu?bec, Universit? Laval >> >> Pr?sident - Comit? de coordination du soutien ? la recherche de Calcul >> >> Qu?bec >> >> Team lead - Research Support National Team, Compute Canada >> >> Instructeur Software Carpentry >> >> Ph. D. en physique >> >> >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Discuss mailing list >> >> [email protected] >> >> >> >> http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org >> > >> > -- >> > C. Titus Brown, [email protected] >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Discuss mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > >> > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> >> http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
