I share Anders' views (and skills) in this regard.

Kristian


On 18 March 2014 17:21, Anders Logg <[email protected]> wrote:

> I support switching to whatever is new and better, but don't have any
> experience with either.
>
> --
> Anders
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 11:31:21AM +0100, Johan Hake wrote:
> > 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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