I have some experience of both frameworks and think they are much superior
to what we have and I therefore support a future transition. pytest also
let you annotate your tests facilitating running only part of your test
suit which could be handy. Porting the python tests to pytest, should be
straightforward, but it is of course a tedious job.

Johan


On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 10:38 AM, Garth N. Wells <[email protected]> wrote:

> I've been discussing with Martin the merits of moving to modern unit
> testing frameworks. We both have some experience of googletest (
> https://code.google.com/p/googletest/) and Martin has experience with
> PyTest (http://pytest.org/). Some motivations for considering a switch
> are (a) simpler code for C++ and Python tests (particularly for C++); and
> (b) scope to speed-up by running tests in parallel. Both googletest and
> PyTest are on the buildbots and are used by uflacs.
>
> I don't think switching is pressing, but it would be helpful to hear if
> there are any strong views either way.
>
> Garth
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