[PATCH 2/2] Add a message to run 'pytest' to run rest of test suite.

Chris Johns chrisj at rtems.org
Wed Mar 18 05:14:26 UTC 2020


On 17/3/20 5:23 pm, Sebastian Huber wrote:
> On 17/03/2020 01:05, Amar Takhar wrote:
> 
>> On 2020-03-17 10:55 +1100, Chris Johns wrote:
>>> On 17/3/20 7:21 am, Sebastian Huber wrote:
>>>> Chris, what do you think about using pytest in favour of the standard Python
>>>> unitttest?
>>> I am fine with pytest. Testing is a development feature and so we can have a
>>> different criteria for the needed dependencies.
>> If we're choosing pytest I'd like to see explicit documentation of what pattern 
>> to use for which situations.
>>
>> It's really easy to fall into traditional patterns for non Python languages 
>> which means we lose advantages of going to pytest.
> This sounds like a great addition to the Testing section in the new Python
> Development Guidelines chapter of the engineering manual.

+1

Chris


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