software-development Which testing framework should we recommend? nose2 or pytest?

Which testing framework should we recommend? nose2 or pytest?

Open jchodera opened this issue 5 years ago • 6 comments

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The MolSSI cookiecutter seems to recommend pytest. Should we recommend that over nose2?

Nov 26 '19 04:11 jchodera

AFAICT pytest adoption has outpaced nose2 and it has a more active community.

On the more anecdotal side, everyone I've bumped into over the last few years that researched this decision has landed on pytest

Dec 02 '19 23:12 ctk3b

Pytest!

Dec 03 '19 00:12 ppxasjsm

PyTest (Biased as the one of the cookiecutter devs), for the reasons @ctk3b said, and because fixtures for life

Dec 03 '19 23:12 Lnaden

sniff how I miss test generators...

Dec 04 '19 03:12 jchodera

sniff how I miss test generators...

That sounds like a PyTest parameterization though. Slap that with a fixture and you're golden

Dec 04 '19 13:12 Lnaden

Nov 25 '20 08:11 Kershi23