[TIP] Query on Testify

Leah Klearman lklrmn at gmail.com
Mon Jun 24 16:11:06 PDT 2013


Hi Mani,

I wrote https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pytest-rerunfailures that should
address your concern #2 if you decide to use py.test.

-Leah


On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 1:24 PM, mani kandan <majafriend at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi John,
>
> Important use cases I am looking for
> 1. Data driven testing.
> 2. Retrying failed test - Here instead of waiting till the end of complete
> test run. I want to retry a test based on failure reason for certain retry
> count. I saw few tools which support rerun failed test cases but that
> happens at the end of complete run.
> 3. Reporter.
> 4. Grouping.
>
> Before writing some subclass and wrapper to do this, I wan to make sure I
> am not reinventing the wheel, if this is already available.
>
> Thanks,
> -Mani
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 11:43 AM, John Wong <gokoproject at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Do you have any particular use case? Based on ur quick description I
>> think you are still okay using unittest module and just subclass / build
>> wrappers/functions.
>>
>> I try to stay with most popular tools because you can't always get
>> supports from other vendors.
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Sean Fisk <sean at seanfisk.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Mani,
>>>
>>> I've never used Testify, but the most popular unit testing frameworks in
>>> Python are pytest <http://pytest.org/latest/>, nose<https://nose.readthedocs.org/en/latest/>,
>>> and the standard library's unittest<http://docs.python.org/library/unittest.html>
>>> .
>>>
>>> I personally use pytest, which has the best documentation of any project
>>> I've ever seen.
>>>
>>> - Sean
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 11:49 AM, mani kandan <majafriend at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I am newbie to python. Recently I came to know about the mailing list.
>>>> I am in search of a good python test framework. While doing so, I cam
>>>> across testify. The wiki provided in
>>>> https://github.com/Yelp/Testify/wiki is very minimal. I am looking for
>>>> some more examples and uses. Can anyone me point me on same.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>      G.MANIKANDAN
>>>>
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