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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
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
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679 open issues indexed

Support for modifying or providing default options Open

topic: config type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#13593 · 4 comments · Opened Jul 11, 2025
Support OSC 8 hyperlinks Open

topic: reporting type: enhancement

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

pytest-dev/pytest#13580 · 5 comments · 5 reactions · Opened Jul 1, 2025
investigate integration of pprintpp and pytest-icdiff into core Open

topic: reporting type: enhancement

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

pytest-dev/pytest#13570 · Opened Jun 27, 2025
Non-obvious plugin load order of the root conftest w.r.t. pytest_plugins Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 32/100

pytest-dev/pytest#13569 · 19 comments · Opened Jun 27, 2025
Incomplete abstract class no longer logs an error Open

topic: collection type: regression

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

pytest-dev/pytest#13546 · 16 comments · Opened Jun 20, 2025
Pytest doen't rewrite conftest plugins Open

topic: rewrite

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

pytest-dev/pytest#13517 · Opened Jun 15, 2025
ExceptionInfo.value not available if pytest.raises fails Open

type: regression

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

pytest-dev/pytest#13509 · 7 comments · Opened Jun 12, 2025
warnings: warning filters set by collected code during collection have no effect during test run Open

plugin: warnings type: bug type: selftests

pytest-dev/pytest#13485 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 3, 2025
Pytest 8.4 fails to discover a test fixture withtin a test class when combined with the usage of freezegun Open

type: regression

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

pytest-dev/pytest#13479 · 20 comments · 6 reactions · Opened Jun 3, 2025
Python 3.14: Ctrl+D behavior during debugging Open

plugin: debugging type: enhancement

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

pytest-dev/pytest#13453 · 4 comments · Opened May 31, 2025
ParameterSet is private Open

topic: parametrize topic: typing type: enhancement

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

pytest-dev/pytest#13431 · 2 comments · 5 reactions · Opened May 18, 2025
Duplicate test nodeids in command line arguments show incorrect collection count but execute only once Open

topic: collection topic: reporting

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

pytest-dev/pytest#13412 · 1 comment · Opened May 8, 2025
The documented pattern for parametrizing conditional raising leaks a lot of memory Open

type: performance

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

pytest-dev/pytest#13410 · 2 comments · Opened May 7, 2025
Disable assertion rewriting of external modules for `python_files = *.py` Open

topic: collection topic: rewrite type: bug

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

pytest-dev/pytest#13403 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 30, 2025
Quadratic runtime - O(n*n), n = number of tests Open

type: performance

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

pytest-dev/pytest#13360 · 8 comments · Opened Apr 7, 2025
fixture function `makepyfile` does not encode files properly Open

topic: fixtures type: enhancement

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

pytest-dev/pytest#13331 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 27, 2025
doctest options NUMBER and ELLIPSIS seem incompatible Open

plugin: doctests

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

pytest-dev/pytest#13327 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 25, 2025
Extra Documentation For Importing Session Scoped Fixtures From A File Open

topic: fixtures

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

pytest-dev/pytest#13326 · Opened Mar 25, 2025
Duplicate, conflicting imports due to changes with editable installs (Migrating from setup.py to pyproject.toml may subtly require enabling namespace support) Open

topic: collection

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

pytest-dev/pytest#13324 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 24, 2025
calling capture.resume_global_capture() changes the used terminal width Open

plugin: capture type: bug

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

pytest-dev/pytest#13322 · 3 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Mar 22, 2025
Collection Incorrect When Specify Both Parent and Sub Folders Open

topic: collection type: bug

pytest-dev/pytest#13319 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 21, 2025
Conftest file is loaded multiple times Open

platform: windows topic: config

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

pytest-dev/pytest#13296 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 14, 2025
What should `raises` and `RaisesGroup` raise? Open

topic: reporting type: backward compatibility

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

pytest-dev/pytest#13286 · 7 comments · Opened Mar 11, 2025
Can't configure warnings module in pytest_configure Open

plugin: warnings topic: config

pytest-dev/pytest#13284 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 10, 2025
pytest failed to parse the filterwarnings option due to subtle issues related to python path Open

plugin: warnings topic: collection

pytest-dev/pytest#13274 · 5 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 6, 2025
Docs failing to build on latest/8.3.x Open

type: docs

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

pytest-dev/pytest#13266 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 2, 2025
pytest 8.3.4 --import-mode importlib regression Open

topic: collection type: regression

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

pytest-dev/pytest#13257 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Feb 28, 2025
Incorrect paths to tests in output when using multiple test locations and `--rootdir`/`pytest.ini` Open

topic: collection type: bug

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

pytest-dev/pytest#13254 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 27, 2025
Specifying configuration( `-c config/pytest.ini`) from non-project-root directory leads to local fixtures ignore Open

topic: config type: regression

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

pytest-dev/pytest#13246 · 1 comment · 3 reactions · Opened Feb 22, 2025
pytest_generate_tests based on params and marks from previous parametrize Open

topic: marks topic: parametrize type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#13233 · 6 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 17, 2025
pytest to be completely quiet when asked Open

topic: reporting type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#13224 · 8 comments · 7 reactions · Opened Feb 15, 2025
[undocumented] Pytest package fixtures only respect __init__.py-containing packages Open

topic: fixtures

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

pytest-dev/pytest#13216 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 11, 2025
color of percentage on warning is green with `-v` Open

topic: reporting

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

pytest-dev/pytest#13201 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 7, 2025
assertion introspection is missing when pytest produces a diff Open

topic: rewrite type: enhancement

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

pytest-dev/pytest#13198 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 6, 2025
tempdir hardening fails when filesystem doesn't track ownership Open

plugin: tmpdir type: enhancement

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

pytest-dev/pytest#13194 · 5 comments · Opened Feb 5, 2025
Add an uv-managed Python to CI Open

type: infrastructure

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

pytest-dev/pytest#13177 · 5 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jan 30, 2025
Inheritable pytest configuration Open

topic: config type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#13173 · 1 comment · 3 reactions · Opened Jan 29, 2025
Add "pre setup" log entry when enabling "--show-setup" Open

topic: fixtures topic: reporting type: enhancement

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

pytest-dev/pytest#13169 · 4 comments · Opened Jan 28, 2025
Improve documentation around conftest-files and importing of fixtures Open

type: docs

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

pytest-dev/pytest#13148 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 20, 2025
support conftest/ folders Open

topic: fixtures type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#13108 · 7 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jan 6, 2025
Make async functions support in pytest hooks Open

type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#13059 · 2 comments · Opened Dec 14, 2024
pytest.mark.parametrize: parameter=value pairs in test IDs Open

topic: parametrize type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#13055 · 6 reactions · Opened Dec 12, 2024
Class Paths Have Strange Behavior on 8.3.4 Open

topic: collection

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

pytest-dev/pytest#13050 · 2 comments · Opened Dec 11, 2024
Consider adopting the Open Test Reporting format Open

status: help wanted type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#13045 · 16 comments · Opened Dec 9, 2024
Should warn when using `pytest_plugins` in a test file (since it's also not the root conftest.py) Open

type: deprecation

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

pytest-dev/pytest#13030 · 4 comments · Opened Dec 5, 2024
8.3.4 changed atexit behavior Open

topic: rewrite

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

pytest-dev/pytest#13021 · 8 comments · Opened Dec 2, 2024
Ability to provide a custom doctest checker Open

plugin: doctests type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#13003 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 28, 2024
`pytest.xfail` and `pytest.skip` as context managers Open

type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#13001 · 7 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 27, 2024
Issue a Warning When Test Cases Use @pytest.fixture ， Help Beginners Differentiate Between Cases and Fixtures Open

topic: fixtures

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

pytest-dev/pytest#12989 · 6 comments · Opened Nov 25, 2024
prioritize outputting relative paths in the terminal Open

topic: reporting type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#12973 · 2 reactions · Opened Nov 18, 2024

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