[pytest-dev] document outlining added values

[Craig de Stigter]

Just after posting I re-read your post, and maybe I mis-read it the first
time. Are you referring to converting a django-based project, rather than
Django itself?

On Tue, 4 Dec 2018 at 13:54 Craig de Stigter <craig.ds at gmail.com> wrote:

> > gradually porting all tests
>
> Mostly-automated conversion is possible, so it doesn't have to be a
> gradual process.
>
> I wrote a script which converts xunit-style assertions into pytest ones:
> https://github.com/craigds/decrapify/blob/master/pytestify.py
>
> In the context of a large project port, my PR for OSGeo/gdal
> <https://github.com/osgeo/gdal/pull/963> is under consideration for
> merge. Most of the work was automated.
>
> I would expect a conversion of django's test suite to pytest to be simpler
> than the GDAL one (django's test suite is in far better shape to start
> with). As a heavy user of django, I'd be interested in taking the lead on
> it, or at least contributing in an advisory way. I'm not aware of any
> discussion on the django lists about this yet though.
>
> Is your question purely academic or are you considering submitting
> something to Django to work on this?
>
> Cheers
> Craig de Stigter
>
> On Mon, 3 Dec 2018 at 21:24 Sivan Grünberg <sivan at vitakka.co> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>>  A transcript from a conversation about considering porting django
>> TestCase's to pytest:
>>
>> "Some counterpoints:
>> - Tomorrow `some_other_test` will be the guideline and pytest will be
>> passe
>> - Why add a new dependency when you have something built in, _if it's
>> good enough_
>>
>> But all that is just conversation, the real issue i'm having is:
>> Now we have 2 ways of doing something in the project
>> consistency is my #1 goal or requirement in a project
>> Makes the codebase so much easier to maintain and learn (edited)
>> I'm trying to grok if pytest gives us such advantages that it's worth
>> gradually porting all tests to use it for consistency, but while the syntax
>> is nice you could achieve the same thing by reading those paramterized
>> lists in a loop i think?"
>>
>> Last remark was in reference to @pytest.mark.parametrize.
>>
>> Do we have a document somewhere to answer such? like a comparison that
>> outlines why it might be better to do so , or alternatively, to discuss the
>> contexts where sticking to Django TestCase's is better?
>>
>> Is there a full feature list that I may point people at when they ask me
>> "why pytest" ?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> -Sivan
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