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
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
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>> >> --
>> >> ---------------------------------
>> >> 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
>> >>
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