[SciPy-Dev] GSoC'17 candidate - Interested in Nose to Pytest Migration.

[Robert Kern]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 11:42 AM, Stefan van der Walt <stefanv at berkeley.edu>
wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2017, at 11:30, Matthew Brett wrote:
> > Matplotlib and scikit-image just migrated to pytest.  I've Cc'ed
> > Thomas Caswell and Stefan van der Walt, hoping they have some
> > experience to share about the migration.
>
> We migrated scikit-image to pytest as the easiest option outside of nose
> (which I don't think is maintained any longer).  Robert's suggested
> solution, of using only vanilla unittest seems ideal, if it can be
> achieved easily; pytest should be able to gather and execute those tests
> just fine.
>
> W.r.t. GSoC, this project is probably not suitable in scope (it's a
> weekend's worth of effort, maybe two).

Ensuring that the test suite runs under pytest doesn't take much work,
sure, but numpy has a number of infrastructure pieces built around nose
(e.g. scipy.test(), etc.) that would need to be reimplemented to use pytest
instead.

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Robert Kern
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