in 2010 yield tests where likely still working correctly they where fundamentally broken ever since pytest introduced the collection phase
-- Ronny 2018-04-11 12:46 GMT+02:00 Chris Dent <cd...@anticdent.org>: > On Sun, 8 Apr 2018, RonnyPfannschmidt wrote: > > * removal of yield tests, ever since collection and test running are no >> longer connected, their setupstate has been fundamentally broken for >> anything but test so simple, one should use parametrize >> > > Not saying it's wrong to see them go, but back in perhaps 2010 (not > really sure of the exact time) pytest's yield tests are what made me > fall in love with pytest. > > That was back when pytest was still a thing that did some collecting > of stuff named 'test_*' that has 'assert' calls in it, and not much > else. > > I loved that. All the fixtures, decorators, etc that we have now are > nicely powerful and useful, but back when you couldn't do much in > tests it meant that during TDD you couldn't do much in code either, > and that was a great thing. > > /me raises a glass to yield tests, bon voyage > > -- > Chris Dent ٩◔̯◔۶ https://anticdent.org/ > freenode: cdent tw: @anticdent > _______________________________________________ > pytest-dev mailing list > pytest-dev@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pytest-dev > > -- Red Hat GmbH, http://www.de.redhat.com/, Registered seat: Grasbrunn, Commercial register: Amtsgericht Muenchen, HRB 153243, Managing Directors: Charles Cachera, Michael Cunningham, Michael O'Neill, Eric Shander
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