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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

Override a fixture on a test module level:with "name" key_word_arg, its may not Override Open

topic: fixtures type: bug

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

pytest-dev/pytest#12952 · 9 comments · Opened Nov 11, 2024
Allow hooks to retry a single test case multiple times with fresh fixtures Open

topic: fixtures type: proposal

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 28/100

pytest-dev/pytest#12939 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 4, 2024
Offer a way to handle conflicting options Open

topic: config type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#12915 · 4 comments · Opened Oct 25, 2024
Improve (beginner) UX around self vs. fixtures Open

topic: reporting type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#12907 · 3 comments · Opened Oct 21, 2024
Run pexpect tests on CI by default Open

type: selftests

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

pytest-dev/pytest#12884 · Opened Oct 13, 2024
"The handle is invalid" error when trying to use a std stream saved before teh call to `pytest.main` Open

plugin: capture type: docs

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

pytest-dev/pytest#12876 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 10, 2024
Add `package` property to `request` Open

topic: fixtures type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#12852 · 3 comments · Opened Oct 4, 2024
pytest_assertion plugin: representation of details failed in pytest.approx AttributeError: 'tuple' object has no attribute 'expected'. Open

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

pytest-dev/pytest#12839 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 25, 2024
Add new fixture `cache_result` param (default True) to ignore fixture cache and re-execute on each usage of the fixture Open

topic: fixtures type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#12814 · 6 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Sep 14, 2024
Cannot collect test classes that are inherited from `Protocol` Open

topic: collection type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#12807 · 7 comments · Opened Sep 12, 2024
`FixtureLookupError.formatrepr` uses `_pyfuncitem.obj`, which is not part of the `pytest.Item` interface Open

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

pytest-dev/pytest#12804 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 11, 2024
running counter of test results at -2 Open

topic: reporting type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#12800 · 4 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Sep 10, 2024
terminalreporter prepends a newline on first write if tests are collected Open

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

pytest-dev/pytest#12777 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 5, 2024
Same named test functions in different `Pytester` tests will use the same `tmp_path` location Open

plugin: pytester

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

pytest-dev/pytest#12731 · 4 comments · Opened Aug 21, 2024
Regression in testdir fixture Open

plugin: unittest type: regression

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

pytest-dev/pytest#12726 · 11 comments · Opened Aug 20, 2024
Warn on test arguments with default values? Open

type: enhancement

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

pytest-dev/pytest#12693 · 3 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 6, 2024
Doctests in __main__ are ignored Open

plugin: doctests topic: collection type: proposal

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 32/100

pytest-dev/pytest#12688 · 3 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Aug 5, 2024
Tests not collected if parametrized with `itertools` objects and imported in multiple files Open

topic: parametrize type: deprecation

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

pytest-dev/pytest#12685 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 4, 2024
It would be good to have fixtures with dinamically changed / different scopes Open

topic: fixtures type: question

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

pytest-dev/pytest#12673 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 31, 2024
Docs: collection hooks listed under reporting hooks Open

type: docs

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

pytest-dev/pytest#12658 · 9 comments · Opened Jul 24, 2024
stabilizing fixture APIs (maybe specifically TopRequest) Open

topic: fixtures type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#12630 · Opened Jul 18, 2024
Flag to run tests based on the summary output of a previous run Open

type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#12619 · 6 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 16, 2024
Allow disabling assertion rewriting at a function level Open

topic: rewrite type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#12610 · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 15, 2024
`testpaths = A A/B` doesn't test folder A (used to work in v7.4.4) Open

topic: collection type: regression

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

pytest-dev/pytest#12605 · 7 comments · Opened Jul 13, 2024
RFC. Support for resetting function-scoped fixtures Open

topic: fixtures type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#12596 · 13 comments · Opened Jul 10, 2024
Pytest uses the source of the package instead of the installed version Open

topic: collection

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

pytest-dev/pytest#12594 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 10, 2024
Warn on `pytest.mark.skip("sys.version_info < (3, 6)")` (should use `skipif`) Open

topic: marks type: enhancement

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

pytest-dev/pytest#12582 · 14 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jul 6, 2024
pytest ignores `-P` (avoid prepend) argument provided to Python Open

topic: collection

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

pytest-dev/pytest#12546 · 3 comments · Opened Jun 29, 2024
Fix `|release|` RST substitution in docs having incomplete values for development versions Open

type: docs

pytest-dev/pytest#12538 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 26, 2024
Refactor underlying data structure of assertions AST from string to something more flexible Open

topic: reporting topic: rewrite type: enhancement

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

pytest-dev/pytest#12499 · Opened Jun 20, 2024
imports of distutils pick up wrong parent module Open

topic: collection

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

pytest-dev/pytest#12490 · 7 comments · Opened Jun 19, 2024
Cleaning up the issue backlog Open

type: infrastructure

pytest-dev/pytest#12465 · 6 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 17, 2024
Module Scoped Fixture Invoked Multiple Times with Indirect Parameterized Tests Open

topic: fixtures

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

pytest-dev/pytest#12459 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 13, 2024
Attempting to `dill` a function defined in a `doctest` run with `pytest` causes a `TypeError: cannot pickle 'EncodedFile' object`. Open

plugin: doctests

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

pytest-dev/pytest#12448 · 6 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jun 11, 2024
doctest expecting asserts behaves differently than stdlib Open

plugin: doctests

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

pytest-dev/pytest#12417 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 4, 2024
Add a new hook to inform user of current state on signal Open

topic: reporting type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#12407 · 4 comments · Opened Jun 2, 2024
text diffs on huge files are slow Open

topic: rewrite type: performance

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

pytest-dev/pytest#12406 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jun 2, 2024
Add hooks to allow further AST customization and control pyc caching while assertion rewriting. Open

topic: rewrite type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#12387 · 1 comment · Opened May 28, 2024
pytest.skip in conftest/__init__ files doesn't work as expected Open

topic: collection

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

pytest-dev/pytest#12371 · 3 comments · Opened May 26, 2024
ASCII color chars leaking into xml report file when using verbose flag Open

plugin: junitxml type: bug

pytest-dev/pytest#12365 · 7 comments · 2 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened May 24, 2024
Populate output xml file after every test on a suite is completed Open

plugin: junitxml type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#12350 · 8 comments · Opened May 22, 2024
Warn if collection spends >5s traversing a directory without collecting any tests Open

topic: collection topic: reporting type: performance

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

pytest-dev/pytest#12312 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened May 12, 2024
8.1.1 removed ability to introspect teardown exceptions in `pytest_fixture_post_finalizer` Open

topic: fixtures type: regression

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

pytest-dev/pytest#12306 · 4 comments · Opened May 10, 2024
`--doctest-modules` option causes namespace packages' subpackages to be added to `sys.path` Open

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

pytest-dev/pytest#12287 · 6 comments · Opened May 5, 2024
With 8.2.0, attempt to import docs from niece module fails Open

status: help wanted topic: collection type: regression

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

pytest-dev/pytest#12276 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 30, 2024
`monkeypatch.setattr` started failing in Pytest 8.1.2 (setuptools CI) Open

plugin: monkeypatch type: bug

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

pytest-dev/pytest#12254 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 26, 2024
Handle warnings raised at import time early in pytest process Open

plugin: warnings type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#12249 · Opened Apr 26, 2024
Let `OutcomeException` inherit from `Exception` instead of `BaseException` Open

type: docs

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

pytest-dev/pytest#12235 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 22, 2024
junit-xml output attribute can be too big to handle with -vv Open

plugin: junitxml type: performance

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

pytest-dev/pytest#12223 · Opened Apr 17, 2024
Adding parameterized fixture in pytest_generate_test is not executing the fixture's code, even if it is marked as "indirect" Open

topic: fixtures topic: parametrize

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

pytest-dev/pytest#12216 · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 15, 2024

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