On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 11:15 AM, Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdeping...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 10:35 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On 20 Mar 2015 09:32, "Mads Kiilerich" <m...@kiilerich.com> wrote: >>> >>> On 03/19/2015 11:30 PM, Brianna Laugher wrote: >>>> >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> I am a contributor to the testing library pytest, and in April we are >>>> holding "adopt pytest month". We are inviting open source projects who >>>> are interested in possibly taking up pytest, to be paired with >>>> experienced pytest users, who can help them convert and write tests, >>>> and show ways to make the most of pytest. More info here: >>>> https://pytest.org/latest/adopt.html >>>> >>>> Pytest tests typically require much less boilerplate and feel more >>>> "Pythonic" than unittest style tests, and there are also 100+ plugins >>>> available, as well as many API hooks for writing your own >>>> customisations. (Although, it can run unittest style tests by default, >>>> as well as nose and doctests.) So... we think it's pretty cool and >>>> have lots of volunteers eager to help spread the love. >>>> >>>> This is a bit of a cold call email, so please excuse me for butting >>>> in. Although I noticed testing is on your "road map", so... if there >>>> is someone who would be interested in working with a >>>> pytest volunteer on this...please let me know/sign up! :) >>> >>> >>> Thank you for the offer! We could certainly use that - there is a lot of >>> room for improvement here ;-) >>> >>> The big question is if someone "here" have time and timing to work on it >>> on our side and pair with you. That would be awesome. Anyone? >> >> I would be interested in working on it, but I'd be a Kallithea newbie as >> well when it came to actually submitting patches to the project. > > I would also like to express my support to this initiative. > My time is also severely limited, but I'm willing to help guide a > person from the pytest side via e-mail (in cooperation with others > like Mads and Nick, hopefully). > > What would the scope of this month be, besides switching the test runner? > > - One aspect I recently inquired about myself is related to fixtures > and the creation/modification of a repository for the execution of a > test. See > http://lists.sfconservancy.org/pipermail/kallithea-general/2015q1/000232.html > and Mads' reply: > http://lists.sfconservancy.org/pipermail/kallithea-general/2015q1/000272.html. > Fixing this would probably require both help from pytest as internal > knowledge of Kallithea. > > - Improving existing tests to write them in a more pytest way could be > interesting > > - Misc improvements > - do not dump all test files in /tmp but rather in a subdirectory > - check why parallel test execution seems to fail (at least on > nosetests it does)
- investigate/profile why each test takes relatively long to complete, while really most tests are making a simple http request and check some output. _______________________________________________ kallithea-general mailing list kallithea-general@sfconservancy.org http://lists.sfconservancy.org/mailman/listinfo/kallithea-general