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The successor to nose, based on unittest2

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Last GitHub push: Jul 28, 2026
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Gradually remove the coverage plugin Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

nose-devs/nose2#651 · Opened Feb 28, 2026
looking for a simple way to label all tests in a TestCase with an attribute Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

nose-devs/nose2#641 · 3 comments · Opened Dec 2, 2025
Add typing to improve the code Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

nose-devs/nose2#604 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Apr 14, 2024
test-run-timeout doesn't work on multiprocess plugin Open

docs

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nose-devs/nose2#564 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 3, 2023
nose2 doesn't support random test ordering Open

feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

nose-devs/nose2#562 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 31, 2023
Generator tests run on the wrong instance, causing setUp to be ineffective and other issues Open

accepted bug help wanted

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nose-devs/nose2#533 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 18, 2022
0.10.0: sphinx warnings Open

bug docs help wanted

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nose-devs/nose2#499 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 15, 2021
Test that has child process logging to stdout not consistent when run with python -m unittest vs nose2 Open

bug help wanted

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nose-devs/nose2#496 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 16, 2021
Feature similar to record_property from pytest? Open

feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

nose-devs/nose2#457 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 5, 2019
Config files loaded from --top-level-directory, not --start-dir (as documented) Open

bug docs

nose-devs/nose2#448 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 29, 2019
Multiprocess plugins incompatible with mocks or docktests? Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

nose-devs/nose2#444 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 13, 2019
Maybe simplify Plugin architecture to get rid of PluginMeta Open

decision needed refactoring

nose-devs/nose2#434 · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 30, 2019
Such DSL: test_teardown runs in reverse order Open

bug help wanted

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nose-devs/nose2#430 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 19, 2019
Test order Open

feature

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

nose-devs/nose2#427 · 3 comments · Opened Feb 1, 2019
Add support to nose2's testsuite for defining functional tests "inline" without having to split testing information between the actual tests and the "functional/support/..." dirs Open

nose-devs/nose2#407 · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 15, 2018
support nose2 -v ./tests/foo/test_boo.py Open

feature

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nose-devs/nose2#399 · 2 comments · 4 reactions · Opened May 30, 2018
The order in which plugins handle events is not consistent, depending on how they're specified Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

nose-devs/nose2#397 · 1 comment · Opened May 12, 2018
Autoplugin will crash sphinx if the plugin crashes Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 32/100

nose-devs/nose2#354 · 3 comments · Opened Oct 28, 2017
Method for disabling plugins Open

feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

nose-devs/nose2#331 · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 12, 2017
Make layers work with class and module fixtures Open

decision needed

nose-devs/nose2#322 · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 4, 2017
Setting a breakpoint before failure invokes pdb Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nose-devs/nose2#314 · Opened Nov 2, 2016
setupClass called for every test if class is not a subclass of TestCase Open

decision needed

nose-devs/nose2#312 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 25, 2016
Collect doesn't work with mp Open

bug plugin-mp

nose-devs/nose2#304 · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 9, 2016
loadTestsFromName conflicting Open

nose-devs/nose2#300 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 9, 2016
--pdb-failure and generative tests Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

nose-devs/nose2#260 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 13, 2016
TypeError when using ext. log handling Open

information needed

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nose-devs/nose2#237 · 5 comments · Opened Mar 4, 2015
--fail-fast not working with --processes Open

backlog bug plugin-mp

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

nose-devs/nose2#228 · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 6, 2014
ImportError due to tests in editable installed packages Open

backlog bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

nose-devs/nose2#214 · 9 comments · Opened Jul 20, 2014
logging output is hard to read in multiprocessing test cases. Open

backlog bug plugin-mp

nose-devs/nose2#182 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened May 9, 2014
Run tests according to VCS diff Open

1.0.x backlog feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

nose-devs/nose2#142 · Opened Dec 17, 2013
Layers cannot use Django's test case classes Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

nose-devs/nose2#138 · 4 comments · Opened Dec 2, 2013
Unexpected config behavior: code-directories is relative to start-dir Open

accepted docs

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nose-devs/nose2#132 · 2 comments · Opened Nov 6, 2013
Add integration with PyCharm Open

1.0.x accepted feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

nose-devs/nose2#131 · 6 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Oct 31, 2013
Should we support 3 aliases for functional test cases setup & teardown? Open

decision needed

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

nose-devs/nose2#126 · Opened Sep 17, 2013
Reporter is not extensible enough Open

1.0.x feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

nose-devs/nose2#96 · 9 comments · Opened Jun 22, 2013
The testids plugin should have an option to preserve ids even when running the whole suite again with new tests Open

1.0.x accepted feature ready

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nose-devs/nose2#91 · 6 comments · Opened Jun 11, 2013
When I use generator tests, setUp() doesn't get run before the test Open

backlog bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nose-devs/nose2#80 · 12 comments · 2 reactions · Opened May 8, 2013
output capture doesn't switch off when pdb activates Open

backlog bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

nose-devs/nose2#74 · Opened Apr 23, 2013
test generation failures swallowed silently by such createTests Open

1.0.x accepted bug could not reproduce information needed ready

nose-devs/nose2#53 · 6 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Nov 26, 2012
TestCase with only generator method does not run any fixtures Open

backlog bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

nose-devs/nose2#46 · 3 comments · Opened Jun 27, 2012
support complex test names in mp plugin Open

1.0.x accepted feature information needed plugin-layer plugin-mp ready

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

nose-devs/nose2#42 · 6 comments · Opened Jun 16, 2012
result should fire before/afterInteraction Open

bug decision needed

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nose-devs/nose2#19 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 23, 2012
support doctest file fixtures Open

backlog bug information needed

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

nose-devs/nose2#12 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 20, 2012
support --failed option in testid plugin Open

1.0.x accepted feature ready

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nose-devs/nose2#11 · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 20, 2012

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