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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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followup with examples for the new deprecation policy Open

type: docs

pytest-dev/pytest#6324 · 5 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Dec 7, 2019
fixture was not found when defined in a test file but discovered twice Open

topic: collection topic: fixtures type: bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

pytest-dev/pytest#6266 · 3 comments · Opened Nov 23, 2019
Is it possible to assign an idfn after stacked parameterization? Open

topic: fixtures topic: parametrize type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#6185 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 13, 2019
Enable fixture dynamic scoping during test run Open

topic: fixtures type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#6101 · 6 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 29, 2019
Output appears in "Captured stderr call" but is unavailable in capsys or capfd Open

plugin: capture plugin: logging topic: fixtures type: bug

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

pytest-dev/pytest#5997 · 29 comments · 34 reactions · Opened Oct 18, 2019
Dependencies between xunit-style setups and the other fixtures Open

topic: fixtures

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

pytest-dev/pytest#5949 · 5 comments · Opened Oct 12, 2019
Assertion rewriting in doctests Open

plugin: doctests topic: rewrite type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#5939 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 10, 2019
BUG: live log interferes with doctests Open

plugin: doctests plugin: logging type: bug

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

pytest-dev/pytest#5908 · 4 comments · 6 reactions · Opened Oct 3, 2019
Can't add fixture to doctest_namespace Open

plugin: doctests topic: fixtures

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

pytest-dev/pytest#5852 · 6 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 16, 2019
deprecate and remove PytestPluginmanager.getplugin Open

topic: config type: deprecation

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

pytest-dev/pytest#5842 · Opened Sep 12, 2019
The first test is run in skipped package Open

topic: marks type: bug

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

pytest-dev/pytest#5830 · 4 comments · Opened Sep 8, 2019
Add support for doctest groups with isolated namespaces, a la sphinx Open

plugin: doctests type: enhancement

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

pytest-dev/pytest#5827 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 7, 2019
Add support for markers in doctests Open

plugin: doctests topic: marks type: enhancement

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

pytest-dev/pytest#5794 · 6 comments · 9 reactions · Opened Aug 27, 2019
Improve error message when tests use closed stdout/stderr (capture) Open

plugin: capture type: enhancement

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

pytest-dev/pytest#5743 · 29 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Aug 15, 2019
Terminal output fails with faulthandler + eventlet Open

platform: mac topic: reporting type: bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 28/100

pytest-dev/pytest#5725 · 4 comments · Opened Aug 10, 2019
Cache should be tagged with pytest version Open

plugin: cache type: bug

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

pytest-dev/pytest#5702 · 5 comments · Opened Aug 6, 2019
--append-ini option to argument overrides Open

topic: config type: enhancement type: feature-branch type: proposal

pytest-dev/pytest#5685 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 2, 2019
Unwieldy inline display of helper function's parameters Open

topic: reporting

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

pytest-dev/pytest#5675 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 30, 2019
Misleading plugin names in test session details Open

topic: reporting type: enhancement

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

pytest-dev/pytest#5661 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 25, 2019
DSGN: collect tests metainfo during execution Open

topic: parametrize type: performance type: proposal

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

pytest-dev/pytest#5640 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 22, 2019
Investigate replacing addfinalizer with ExitStack Open

topic: fixtures type: refactoring

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

pytest-dev/pytest#5592 · 6 comments · Opened Jul 10, 2019
Teardown duration reported in the following setup (pytest_runtest_logreport) Open

topic: fixtures type: bug type: refactoring

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

pytest-dev/pytest#5591 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 10, 2019
regex based fixture names for parameter inclusion Open

topic: fixtures topic: parametrize type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#5581 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 9, 2019
Allow registering marks using regex Open

topic: marks type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#5570 · 8 comments · Opened Jul 7, 2019
Generalize pytest_assertrepr_compare() hook so it works with any assert Open

topic: rewrite type: enhancement

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

pytest-dev/pytest#5535 · 10 comments · 5 reactions · Opened Jul 2, 2019
add completion of node ids (test classes/functions) for argcomplete Open

plugin: argcomplete type: enhancement

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

pytest-dev/pytest#5514 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Jun 28, 2019
pytest capture logging error still happening Open

plugin: capture plugin: logging type: bug

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

pytest-dev/pytest#5502 · 64 comments · 70 reactions · Opened Jun 27, 2019
Another way to disable rewrites? Open

topic: rewrite type: enhancement

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

pytest-dev/pytest#5473 · 3 comments · Opened Jun 23, 2019
"Optimal" tests reordering - synthesis & strategy Open

topic: collection topic: fixtures type: enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

pytest-dev/pytest#5460 · 1 comment · 3 reactions · Opened Jun 18, 2019
Deprecate collecting 'test*.txt' files as doctests, replaced by 'test_*.txt' Open

plugin: doctests type: deprecation type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#5450 · 4 comments · Opened Jun 15, 2019
capture: combine or line-order intersparse stdout and stderr Open

plugin: capture status: critical type: enhancement type: feature-branch type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#5449 · 14 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Jun 14, 2019
markers - a rough path into the future (and object based markers) Open

topic: marks type: proposal

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

pytest-dev/pytest#5424 · 13 comments · Opened Jun 8, 2019
parametrize: truncate long parameters in output in `-v` mode, still display full value in `-vv` Open

topic: reporting type: proposal

pytest-dev/pytest#5285 · 1 comment · 7 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened May 17, 2019
pytest 4.5 floods the output with logging errors when logging from atexit handlers Open

plugin: capture type: bug

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

pytest-dev/pytest#5282 · 5 comments · 3 reactions · Opened May 17, 2019
pytest is leaving behind symlink'd directories in tmpdir Open

plugin: tmpdir type: enhancement

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

pytest-dev/pytest#5232 · 7 comments · Opened May 8, 2019
--fulltrace does not respect tbstyle (--tb=native) Open

topic: reporting type: bug

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

pytest-dev/pytest#5225 · Opened May 7, 2019
scoped tmp_path_factory fixtures Open

plugin: tmpdir topic: fixtures type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#5219 · 2 comments · Opened May 6, 2019
Can't access "Captured stderr call" section of logging Open

plugin: logging

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

pytest-dev/pytest#5160 · 4 comments · 13 reactions · Opened Apr 23, 2019
'class' scope fixture invoke and teardown order issue in nested test class Open

topic: fixtures

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

pytest-dev/pytest#5148 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 19, 2019
short test summary: different formats for skip, xfail and xpass Open

topic: reporting type: enhancement

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

pytest-dev/pytest#5077 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 9, 2019
Support `-r w` and remove `--disable-warnings` argument Open

topic: config topic: reporting type: deprecation type: enhancement

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

pytest-dev/pytest#5066 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 7, 2019
Unroll the iterable for all/any calls to get better reports Open

topic: rewrite type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#5062 · 8 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 6, 2019
Introduce new hook to better control display of items in terminal Open

type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#5047 · 9 comments · Opened Apr 4, 2019
pytest.fail in fixture results in error and not failure Open

topic: fixtures type: proposal

pytest-dev/pytest#5044 · 12 comments · 10 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 4, 2019
pytest_load_initial_conftests not called for conftest plugins (arg manipulation) Open

type: bug

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

pytest-dev/pytest#5024 · 15 comments · Opened Apr 2, 2019
self.skipTest does not produce the same results as unittest does Open

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

pytest-dev/pytest#13756 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 1, 2019
Have an option to implement new test result / outcome Open

type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#4960 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 20, 2019
doctest plugin runs when unwanted Open

plugin: doctests type: bug

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

pytest-dev/pytest#4954 · 17 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 19, 2019
Fixture order considering global states Open

topic: fixtures

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

pytest-dev/pytest#4892 · 5 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Mar 6, 2019
Refactor fixture finalization Open

topic: fixtures type: refactoring

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

pytest-dev/pytest#4871 · 11 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 1, 2019

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