Invitation to "adopt pytest month"

[Thomas De Schampheleire]

Hi,

On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 10:35 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 20 Mar 2015 09:32, "Mads Kiilerich" <mads at kiilerich.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 03/19/2015 11:30 PM, Brianna Laugher wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I am a contributor to the testing library pytest, and in April we are
>>> holding "adopt pytest month". We are inviting open source projects who
>>> are interested in possibly taking up pytest, to be paired with
>>> experienced pytest users, who can help them convert and write tests,
>>> and show ways to make the most of pytest. More info here:
>>> https://pytest.org/latest/adopt.html
>>>
>>> Pytest tests typically require much less boilerplate and feel more
>>> "Pythonic" than unittest style tests, and there are also 100+ plugins
>>> available, as well as many API hooks for writing your own
>>> customisations. (Although, it can run unittest style tests by default,
>>> as well as nose and doctests.) So... we think it's pretty cool and
>>> have lots of volunteers eager to help spread the love.
>>>
>>> This is a bit of a cold call email, so please excuse me for butting
>>> in. Although I noticed testing is on your "road map", so... if there
>>> is someone who would be interested in working with a
>>> pytest volunteer on this...please let me know/sign up! :)
>>
>>
>> Thank you for the offer! We could certainly use that - there is a lot of
>> room for improvement here ;-)
>>
>> The big question is if someone "here" have time and timing to work on it
>> on our side and pair with you. That would be awesome. Anyone?
>
> I would be interested in working on it, but I'd be a Kallithea newbie as
> well when it came to actually submitting patches to the project.

I would also like to express my support to this initiative.
My time is also severely limited, but I'm willing to help guide a
person from the pytest side via e-mail (in cooperation with others
like Mads and Nick, hopefully).

What would the scope of this month be, besides switching the test runner?

- One aspect I recently inquired about myself is related to fixtures
and the creation/modification of a repository for the execution of a
test. See http://lists.sfconservancy.org/pipermail/kallithea-general/2015q1/000232.html
and Mads' reply:
http://lists.sfconservancy.org/pipermail/kallithea-general/2015q1/000272.html.
  Fixing this would probably require both help from pytest as internal
knowledge of Kallithea.

- Improving existing tests to write them in a more pytest way could be
interesting

- Misc improvements
  - do not dump all test files in /tmp but rather in a subdirectory
  - check why parallel test execution seems to fail (at least on
nosetests it does)

- ... ?

Best regards,
Thomas