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The pytest framework makes it easy to write small tests, yet scales to support complex functional testing

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Dominant language: Python
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Sep 18, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
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679 open issues indexed

allow logger specific level configuration for the logfile option Open

plugin: logging type: enhancement type: proposal

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

pytest-dev/pytest#7417 · 5 comments · 8 reactions · Opened Jun 25, 2020
skipping: possible improvements to pytest.mark.skipif/xfail condition handling Open

topic: marks type: proposal

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

pytest-dev/pytest#7395 · 8 comments · 5 reactions · Opened Jun 20, 2020
Add 'qual_name' property to Nodes Open

type: enhancement

pytest-dev/pytest#7365 · 9 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 13, 2020
Caplog don't capture all logs Open

plugin: logging

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

pytest-dev/pytest#7335 · 10 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jun 8, 2020
Feature request - Add tab completion for test classes and functions Open

type: enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

pytest-dev/pytest#7329 · 8 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jun 5, 2020
[RFC] Explicit mechanism for supporting xfail and skip in [third-party] plugins Open

status: help wanted type: docs type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#7327 · 3 comments · Opened Jun 5, 2020
Deprecate/drop support for accepting bytes in terminal.write_line Open

type: deprecation

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

pytest-dev/pytest#7323 · 4 comments · Opened Jun 5, 2020
API Question: Configure pytest without running it Open

topic: config type: enhancement type: refactoring

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

pytest-dev/pytest#7309 · 4 comments · Opened Jun 3, 2020
Helpful information in logfiles generated by logging plugin Open

plugin: logging type: proposal

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 62/100

pytest-dev/pytest#7307 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 3, 2020
record_xml_attribute not visible in JUnit XML when using pytest-xdist Open

plugin: xdist type: bug

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

pytest-dev/pytest#8654 · 13 comments · Opened Jun 2, 2020
Testing argparse accepting strings from stdin raises OSError Open

type: bug

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

pytest-dev/pytest#7284 · 14 comments · Opened May 30, 2020
pytest_raises call pytest_assertion_pass_hook Open

type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#7268 · 1 comment · Opened May 27, 2020
@pytest.fixture(scope="package") works like session if placed in one file and used with pytest_plugins in conftest.py Open

topic: fixtures

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

pytest-dev/pytest#7232 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened May 20, 2020
Allow multiple use of `-m` option Open

topic: collection type: enhancement

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

pytest-dev/pytest#7229 · 9 comments · 4 reactions · Opened May 18, 2020
Generation of verbose assertion error with large bytearrays extremely slow Open

topic: rewrite type: performance

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

pytest-dev/pytest#7206 · 4 comments · Opened May 9, 2020
caplog fixture should not be affected by global log level Open

plugin: logging type: proposal

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

pytest-dev/pytest#7162 · 11 comments · 1 reaction · Opened May 5, 2020
Calling pytest.skip isn't reflected in test outcome in make_report hook Open

topic: reporting type: bug

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

pytest-dev/pytest#7125 · 6 comments · Opened Apr 27, 2020
fix support for obj parameter of Class.from_parent Open

type: refactoring

pytest-dev/pytest#7063 · 6 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 9, 2020
--strict-markers could enable the warning to cause an error Open

plugin: warnings topic: config topic: marks

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

pytest-dev/pytest#7051 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 9, 2020
test_faulthandler.py::test_timeout[True] occasionally crashes Open

type: bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 50/100

pytest-dev/pytest#7022 · 15 comments · Opened Apr 5, 2020
--doctest-modules ignores module-attribute docstrings Open

plugin: doctests type: enhancement

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

pytest-dev/pytest#6996 · 2 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Mar 31, 2020
Cannot use "pytest test_*" (with wildchar filter) to collect cases on Windows 7 command line Open

topic: collection type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#6971 · 8 comments · Opened Mar 26, 2020
Discussion: fixing test module name collisions in namespace packages Open

topic: collection type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#6966 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 25, 2020
unrecognized arguments when using "-p" option Open

type: bug type: regression

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

pytest-dev/pytest#6963 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 24, 2020
Support docs in multiple languages Open

type: docs type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#6922 · 7 comments · Opened Mar 13, 2020
deprecate automated initial conftest consideration and make conftest consideration triggered by a config option Open

type: backward compatibility type: deprecation

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

pytest-dev/pytest#6912 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 13, 2020
parser.addoption has a buggy argument parser (relative path-like strings) Open

topic: config

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

pytest-dev/pytest#6904 · 7 comments · Opened Mar 12, 2020
Live logs questions Open

plugin: logging type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#6852 · 12 comments · Opened Mar 2, 2020
Boolean options should recognize `--no-` prefix to toggle them Open

topic: config type: enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

pytest-dev/pytest#6846 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 29, 2020
provide framework integration for warning filter setup Open

plugin: warnings type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#6838 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 28, 2020
Test case naming function (alternative to ids=) Open

topic: parametrize type: proposal

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

pytest-dev/pytest#6837 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 28, 2020
LineMatcher: add option to match all lines Open

plugin: pytester type: enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

pytest-dev/pytest#6820 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Feb 25, 2020
(Flaky) test failure: OSError via PosixPath.glob Open

topic: rewrite type: bug

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

pytest-dev/pytest#6809 · Opened Feb 24, 2020
assertion diffs: slightly confusing full diff for `range` Open

topic: rewrite type: enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

pytest-dev/pytest#6772 · Opened Feb 19, 2020
`--deselect` doesn't work with absolute paths Open

topic: selection

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

pytest-dev/pytest#6751 · 16 comments · Opened Feb 17, 2020
compat::getfuncargnames removes self from instance method twice by mistake Open

topic: fixtures type: bug

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

pytest-dev/pytest#6750 · 5 comments · Opened Feb 17, 2020
Pytest using matplotlib finding numpy in local Win10 env when run in WSL environment. Open

platform: windows topic: collection type: bug

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

pytest-dev/pytest#6678 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 5, 2020
tests: revisit pdb/debugging tests Open

type: bug type: enhancement type: selftests

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

pytest-dev/pytest#6674 · Opened Feb 4, 2020
pytest leaks memory and crashes jenkins slaves when this error occurs Open

plugin: xdist type: performance

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

pytest-dev/pytest#6670 · 14 comments · Opened Feb 4, 2020
A commandline flag to override `pytrace` in failure Open

topic: reporting type: enhancement

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

pytest-dev/pytest#6651 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 1, 2020
Test case selection cannot work if parametrised id generation contains parentheses Open

topic: fixtures topic: parametrize topic: selection type: bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

pytest-dev/pytest#6626 · 4 comments · Opened Jan 30, 2020
Wrong nodeid handling with rootdir and testfile as argument Open

topic: reporting type: bug

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

pytest-dev/pytest#6605 · Opened Jan 28, 2020
unittest pytester subprocess option tooling/usage Open

plugin: pytester type: proposal type: removal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#6487 · 4 comments · Opened Jan 17, 2020
[docs] The difference between `--pyargs pkg.testing` vs. `testpaths = pkg/testing/` Open

topic: config type: docs

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

pytest-dev/pytest#6451 · 6 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Jan 13, 2020
terminal: progress indicator: bold for when main color changed Open

topic: reporting type: enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

pytest-dev/pytest#6439 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 10, 2020
Recursive parameterized fixture bug Open

topic: fixtures type: bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

pytest-dev/pytest#6416 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 7, 2020
--ignore option is not relative to rootdir? Open

topic: collection type: enhancement

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

pytest-dev/pytest#6399 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 3, 2020
add option using dynamically loaded plugin class - unrecognized arguments Open

topic: config

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

pytest-dev/pytest#6383 · 5 comments · Opened Dec 30, 2019
Confusing interaction between rootdir and pytest.ini Open

topic: config type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#6376 · 4 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Dec 28, 2019
ModuleNotFoundError when passing tests in two directories with similar layouts Open

topic: collection

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

pytest-dev/pytest#6339 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 13, 2019

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