[QA] [Wikitech-l] Migrating away from nose (was 2017-11-01 Scrum of Scrums meeting notes)

Wed Nov 1 19:56:08 UTC 2017

Hey,
I did the migration, here's my notes:
- If you use "assert_equal" methods, the migration is easy, there is a
library that does the most cases for you:
https://github.com/pytest-dev/nose2pytest raise assertions would be a
problem but there is not lots of them left.
 - if you use eq_ (from nosetests.tools), you can simply replace them with
assert_equal and go to step one, but when I did, it also changed "def
__eq__" to "def __assert_eqal_" causing a mess (of course it does that, it
was very stupid of me)
 - The mark system in pytest is great (pytest.mark) Take advantage of it.

I also would be happy to lend a hand in migrating specially in review, just
ping me :)

Best

On 1 November 2017 at 19:34, Greg Grossmeier <greg at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> (adding in qa@ list)
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> <quote name="Kunal Mehta" date="2017-11-01" time="11:15:42 -0700">
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> > Hi,
> >
> > On 11/01/2017 10:53 AM, Grace Gellerman wrote:
> > > === Scoring Platform === ** Converted our tests from nosetests to
> > > pytest (Anyone else making the transition?) *** nosetests is
> > > under-maintained *** python community is moving towards pytest ***
> > > converting our repos was pretty straightforward
> >
> > I didn't realize nose was in such a state :( They put a notice[1] on
> > their website, but I always skipped it.
> >
> > pytest[2] claims that it's compatible with nose out of the box - was
> > that the experience you had as well?
> >
> > Off the top of my head, Pywikibot, CI, and other miscellaneous
> > projects all use nose and should probably be migrated over to pytest.
> >
> > [1] https://nose.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#note-to-users
> > [2] https://docs.pytest.org/en/latest/
> >
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