Re: [pytest-dev] Advice for writing a failure bisection plugin

2018-11-04 Thread Floris Bruynooghe
On Sun 04 Nov 2018 at 02:47 +0100, Daniel Hahler wrote: > On 03.11.18 08:54, Craig de Stigter wrote: > > However, I note the excellent pytest-xdist plugin is good at > > spawning worker subprocesses and sending tests to them, and rather > > than re-invent the wheel I wondered if I could make my pl

Re: [pytest-dev] Advice for writing a failure bisection plugin

2018-11-03 Thread Daniel Hahler
On 03.11.18 08:54, Craig de Stigter wrote: > However, I note the excellent pytest-xdist plugin is good at spawning worker > subprocesses and sending tests to them, and rather than re-invent the wheel I > wondered if I could make my plugin depend on xdist, and /control/ the xdist > workers (e.g.

[pytest-dev] Advice for writing a failure bisection plugin

2018-11-03 Thread Craig de Stigter
Hi there I'm really enjoying using pytest (and currently porting a large OSS project to it). The project I'm porting has a large number of tests that depend on other tests. In particular, combining certain tests in the same run as other tests appears to ca