Anthony Sottile and Brian discuss changes that would be cool for pytest, even unrealistic changes.These are changes we'd make to pytest if we didn't ahve to care about backwards compatibilty.Anthony's list:
The import system
Multi-process support out of the box
Async support
Changes to the fixture system
Extend the assert rewriting to make it modular
Add matchers to assert mechanism
Ban test class inheritance
Brian's list:
Extend assert rewriting for custom rewriting, like check
pytester matchers available for all tests
Throw out nose and unittest compatibility plugins
Throw out setup_module, teardown_module and other xunit style functions
Remove a bunch of the hook functions
Documentation improvement of remaining hook functions which include examples of how to use it
Start running tests before collection is done
Split collection and running into two processes
Have the fixtures be able to know the result of the test during teardown
The import system
Multi-process support out of the box
Async support
Changes to the fixture system
Extend the assert rewriting to make it modular
Add matchers to assert mechanism
Ban test class inheritance
Brian's list:
Extend assert rewriting for custom rewriting, like check
pytester matchers available for all tests
Throw out nose and unittest compatibility plugins
Throw out setup_module, teardown_module and other xunit style functions
Remove a bunch of the hook functions
Documentation improvement of remaining hook functions which include examples of how to use it
Start running tests before collection is done
Split collection and running into two processes
Have the fixtures be able to know the result of the test during teardown
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