Hi Wolfgang, On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 14:15 +0200, Wolfgang Schnerring wrote: > Hello Holger, > > * holger krekel [2014-09-15 13:50]: > > ... and after more head scratching eventually just changed 2 LOCs only 1-2 > > hours later ... > > I know how these kind of bugs feel... research/analayse/headscratch/headdesk > for several hours, and the actual fix required is to change a line or two.
I guess you know about https://vine.co/v/hPXTA6l9AqQ :) (also posted on twitter) > > The only way you could have done even > > better is with a PR that adds an xfailing test directly :) > > I'll try to do that the next time :), however I must confess the pytest > internals (and, correspondingly, its selftests) are still quite arcane to me, > even though I'v dug through there in search of various stuff on several > occasions now. So... I'd love to get a more in-depth introduction, at a sprint > sometime maybe? Sure, or you can try to grab e.g. Floris, Ronny, Anatoly on an occassion as they know quite a bit as well. Most self tests are quite functional, btw, for example if you look at the test i added mapping the example that you gave. I.e. writing a test does not require knowing details of the internals that much. best, holger > Wolfgang > > _______________________________________________ > Pytest-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pytest-dev > _______________________________________________ Pytest-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pytest-dev
