On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 3:18 PM Marcin Sobczyk <msobczyk@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I've been experimenting with porting basic suite from nose to pytest.
> The rationale behind my efforts were nose being deprecated since a long
> time [1] and the ability to use pytest's awesome fixtures.
>
> Turns out it's not really that hard - with two patches [2][3] I was able
> to lay the groundwork for non-distruptive and incremental process
> of porting the basic suite module by module. You can find the steps
> needed to port a certain module described in [2]. Please find
> the patches that do the actual porting in this topic [4].

Awesome!

> One of the hurdles of using pytest vs nose is that the former executes
> the test functions in the order they appear in the module. This comes
> from the reasoning, that tests should be independent, which is not the
> case for OST. Reordering the test functions to match '_TEST_LIST'
> for '002_bootstrap' and '004_basic_sanity' modules would make
> a huge disruption, so I've decided to use a 'pytest-ordering' plugin that
> allows you to define the order with '@pytest.mark.run(order=)' decorators.

Until we get rid of dependencies between tests, this sounds like a reasonable
solution.

_______________________________________________
Devel mailing list -- devel@ovirt.org
To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@ovirt.org
Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/privacy-policy.html
oVirt Code of Conduct: https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/
List Archives: https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/devel@ovirt.org/message/MAU6DKOV3LB3Y2IRAFAEXSJFUIPMZF5T/