[TIP] Query on Testify

mani kandan majafriend at gmail.com
Mon Jun 24 23:21:41 PDT 2013


Thanks for the pointers Rhett and Leah. I will go through them and try to
understand if this suites my requirement.


On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Leah Klearman <lklrmn at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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