Harry, I also implemented a custom pytest plugin which I can't open source at this moment. But what I did find is that the traceback filtering in case of test failures doesn't work correctly when returning custom test `Item` objects. See this mail thread from the archives about it:
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/pytest-dev/2018-March/004372.html Hope it helps you too. Ringo On 28 June 2018 at 11:05, Harry Percival <obeythetestingg...@gmail.com> wrote: > PS a couple of people have already pointed me towards some useful example > repos: > > - Sybil: https://github.com/cjw296/sybil/blob/master/sybil/ > integration/pytest.py > - Pytest-CPP: https://github.com/pytest-dev/ > pytest-cpp/blob/master/pytest_cpp/plugin.py <-- really nice and simple :) > > so I've been able to make a start, and i actually already have a hacky > first cut. all good! > > > On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 8:17 PM Harry Percival < > obeythetestingg...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> hi there, >> >> at work we use a test framework called "Contexts": >> http://contexts.readthedocs.io/en/v0.11.2/ >> >> it's basically a syntax for declaring tests using a given/when/then kind >> of syntax, using classes and special methods. >> >> as a way of structuring your tests it's... fine, once you get used to >> it. as a test runner and assertion framework it's fairly primitive. so >> i'd like to write a pytest plugin for it that basically just re-uses the >> parts of it that know how to recognise given/when/then bits, and then just >> use pytest as the test runner and assertion library. >> >> any pointers for how to get started? i thought i'd get a prototype >> started just based on `conftest.py`, and I've found the >> `pytest_pycollect_makeitem` which seems to be a good place to intercept for >> collecting tests, but I don't know what it's supposed to return (an >> "Item"? what's that? docs are minimal) or how to provide info about >> setup and teardown methods, which I guess would need to become fixtures >> somehow, but how would I associate them with a test method? >> >> maybe there's some example code somewhere i could look at? i tried >> peeking at pytest-bdd but it seems to be doing things at a lower level... >> >> hp >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > pytest-dev mailing list > pytest-dev@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pytest-dev > > -- *Ringo De Smet* ringo.de.s...@ontoforce.com
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