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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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Unequal location hints point at equal sections Open

topic: reporting type: bug

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

pytest-dev/pytest#4765 · 4 comments · Opened Feb 10, 2019
Warnings capture interferes with doctest Open

plugin: doctests plugin: warnings type: bug

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

pytest-dev/pytest#4732 · 3 comments · Opened Feb 6, 2019
[FeatureRequest] Add --doctest-only to only collect doctests Open

plugin: doctests topic: collection type: enhancement

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

pytest-dev/pytest#4726 · 8 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 5, 2019
Configurable behavior for maxfail Open

topic: reporting type: backward compatibility type: enhancement type: feature-branch type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#4702 · 4 comments · Opened Jan 31, 2019
when warnings error - ensure the location is printed Open

type: enhancement type: feature-branch type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#4687 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 28, 2019
Refactor how terminal reporter uses pytest_report_teststatus hook Open

type: refactoring

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 15/100

pytest-dev/pytest#4674 · Opened Jan 24, 2019
Syntax error in test file makes pytest exit with exit code 2 Open

topic: config type: enhancement

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

pytest-dev/pytest#4603 · 3 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Jan 5, 2019
Parametrized fixtures should prioritize re-building child fixtures. Open

topic: fixtures type: enhancement

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

pytest-dev/pytest#4589 · 3 comments · Opened Jan 3, 2019
revisit relation between marks and keywords Open

topic: marks type: refactoring

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

pytest-dev/pytest#4569 · 5 comments · Opened Dec 20, 2018
Skipping teardown with KeyboardInterrupt Open

topic: fixtures type: bug

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

pytest-dev/pytest#4517 · 1 comment · 6 reactions · Opened Dec 7, 2018
empty_parameter_set_mark = xfail + `--runxfail` => crash Open

type: bug

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

pytest-dev/pytest#4497 · 2 comments · Opened Dec 3, 2018
documentation contradiction: pytest_load_initial_conftests Open

type: docs

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

pytest-dev/pytest#4482 · 6 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Nov 30, 2018
collection: python_files=* / explicit collection Open

topic: collection type: enhancement

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

pytest-dev/pytest#4476 · 13 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Nov 28, 2018
The display symbol the colors in the error message. Instead of E I get \x1b[1m\x1b[31mE Open

platform: windows topic: reporting type: bug

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

pytest-dev/pytest#4460 · 7 comments · Opened Nov 24, 2018
Using `capfd` in fixture breaks output capturing Open

plugin: capture topic: fixtures

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

pytest-dev/pytest#4428 · 11 comments · Opened Nov 20, 2018
stdout capturing breaks sys.stdout.encoding Open

plugin: capture type: bug

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

pytest-dev/pytest#4389 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 14, 2018
Option --last-failed with all prior failures filtered runs no tests Open

plugin: cache topic: collection topic: marks

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

pytest-dev/pytest#4362 · 3 comments · Opened Nov 9, 2018
Let pytest.warns check the warning's stacklevel Open

plugin: warnings type: enhancement

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

pytest-dev/pytest#4343 · 7 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Nov 8, 2018
investigate tmpdir creation scheme that uses a alternative prefix to make races between create and garbage collection impossible Open

plugin: tmpdir type: infrastructure

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

pytest-dev/pytest#4246 · Opened Oct 26, 2018
caplog: add convenience caplog.message() method? Open

plugin: logging type: enhancement

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

pytest-dev/pytest#4223 · 7 comments · Opened Oct 24, 2018
Parametrized nodeid not matching with parametrized IDs Open

topic: parametrize topic: selection type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#4142 · 10 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 14, 2018
Update docs on parametrization gotchas Open

topic: parametrize type: docs

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

pytest-dev/pytest#4101 · 1 comment · 4 reactions · Opened Oct 10, 2018
Autouse fixtures in Packages (__init__.py) Open

topic: fixtures type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#4085 · 4 comments · Opened Oct 6, 2018
Parametrize based on another parameter Open

topic: parametrize type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#4050 · 6 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Sep 28, 2018
Make --pyargs properly import modules Open

type: refactoring

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

pytest-dev/pytest#4044 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 26, 2018
pytest_generate_tests cannot modify fixtures of parametrized tests Open

topic: fixtures topic: parametrize type: refactoring

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

pytest-dev/pytest#4017 · 11 comments · Opened Sep 22, 2018
empty parameterset - transtion to failure by default Open

type: backward compatibility type: deprecation type: feature-branch

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

pytest-dev/pytest#3979 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 13, 2018
pytest cache files contain absolute paths Open

topic: rewrite type: enhancement

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

pytest-dev/pytest#3968 · 6 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 11, 2018
pytest silently chooses the wrong fixture when two plugins declare a fixture with the same name Open

topic: fixtures topic: reporting type: backward compatibility

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

pytest-dev/pytest#3966 · 14 comments · 11 reactions · Opened Sep 11, 2018
introduce FunctionDefinition with a scope to the official collection tree Open

topic: config type: refactoring

pytest-dev/pytest#3926 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 3, 2018
testsuite verification Open

type: infrastructure

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

pytest-dev/pytest#3897 · Opened Aug 28, 2018
Fixtures without name matching magic Open

topic: fixtures type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#3834 · 103 comments · 96 reactions · Opened Aug 19, 2018
Explicit control of fixtures outside of test run Open

topic: fixtures type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#3817 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 15, 2018
Logfile clobbered when using xdist plugin Open

plugin: logging plugin: xdist type: enhancement

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

pytest-dev/pytest#3813 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 14, 2018
Potential for Optimization of Fixture Teardown Open

topic: fixtures type: enhancement type: performance type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#3806 · 10 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 11, 2018
provide object storage with lifetimes for config/items/scopes Open

type: backward compatibility type: feature-branch type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#3740 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 31, 2018
silently skip a test Open

type: enhancement type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#3730 · 45 comments · 12 reactions · Opened Jul 29, 2018
Don't create tmpdir simlink if --basetemp is used Open

plugin: tmpdir type: bug

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

pytest-dev/pytest#3715 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 25, 2018
Issues with nodeid consistency when pytest --pyargs is not run from the root directory Open

topic: collection type: bug

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

pytest-dev/pytest#3714 · 5 comments · Opened Jul 24, 2018
pytest syntax_error.py --pdb should not drop into pdb? Open

plugin: debugging topic: collection type: bug

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

pytest-dev/pytest#3649 · 6 comments · Opened Jul 2, 2018
validate arguments of parametrize mark Open

topic: parametrize type: enhancement

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

pytest-dev/pytest#3645 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 30, 2018
Full diff thinks unittest.mock.ANY fails equality check in assertions Open

status: help wanted type: enhancement type: feature-branch

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

pytest-dev/pytest#3638 · 9 comments · 15 reactions · Opened Jun 29, 2018
Feature request: Add original exception object to pytest_exception_interact Open

type: enhancement type: feature-branch

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

pytest-dev/pytest#3626 · 7 comments · Opened Jun 27, 2018
Provide for including fixtures from common location [improvement] Open

topic: fixtures type: enhancement

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

pytest-dev/pytest#3625 · 7 comments · Opened Jun 27, 2018
(Optionally) display tracebacks with warnings Open

plugin: warnings topic: tracebacks type: enhancement

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

pytest-dev/pytest#3559 · 3 comments · 10 reactions · Opened Jun 9, 2018
metafunc.parametrize(..., scope="session") fails when mixed with other parametrizations Open

topic: parametrize type: bug

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

pytest-dev/pytest#3542 · 9 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 6, 2018
deprecate setup.cfg support Open

topic: config type: deprecation

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

pytest-dev/pytest#3523 · 7 comments · 1 reaction · Opened May 31, 2018
Making rewrite and import of custom DSL play nice Open

status: help wanted topic: rewrite

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

pytest-dev/pytest#3477 · 4 comments · Opened May 15, 2018
New scope designed for parametrized tests functions Open

topic: fixtures topic: parametrize type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#3432 · 8 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Apr 26, 2018
Refactor "repr" objects Open

topic: reporting type: refactoring

pytest-dev/pytest#3399 · 6 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 13, 2018

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