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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

Pytest does not capture teardown logs if a fixture throws an exception Open

plugin: logging topic: fixtures

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

pytest-dev/pytest#12203 · Opened Apr 10, 2024
Pytest keeps reference to attributes of failed test cases for too long Open

topic: tracebacks type: performance

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

pytest-dev/pytest#12198 · 4 comments · Opened Apr 8, 2024
ModuleNotFoundError with multiprocessing and import-mode=importlib Open

topic: collection

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

pytest-dev/pytest#12178 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 2, 2024
``ExceptionInfo.for_later()`` wont add assertion strip text Open

type: bug

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

pytest-dev/pytest#12175 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 1, 2024
Parametrization with Variables Unexpectedly Changes Fixture Scope from Class-Level to Function-Level Open

topic: fixtures type: bug

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

pytest-dev/pytest#12146 · 7 comments · Opened Mar 21, 2024
Add explicit support for `unittest.mock.Mock` in monkeypatch fixture Open

plugin: monkeypatch type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#12145 · 3 comments · Opened Mar 20, 2024
Header loading text order Open

topic: reporting type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#12143 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 20, 2024
Teardown order mismatch with parametrized parent fixtures and scopes Open

topic: fixtures

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

pytest-dev/pytest#12134 · 7 comments · Opened Mar 18, 2024
[minor QoL] allow specifying -k multiple times Open

topic: selection type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#12084 · 5 comments · Opened Mar 6, 2024
Add mode to only autodiscover paths with pyproject.toml or setup.py Open

topic: collection type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#12016 · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 20, 2024
`pytest_assertrepr_compare` hook should take the same arguments as `pytest_assertion_pass` Open

type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#11984 · 1 comment · 3 reactions · Opened Feb 15, 2024
`AssertionError`s with differing items in dict of lists do not display properly when not running in verbose mode Open

topic: reporting type: enhancement

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

pytest-dev/pytest#11980 · 3 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Feb 15, 2024
conditionally rewrite assertions / support assertion descriptions in `pytest_assertion_pass` and `pytest_assertrepr_compare` hooks Open

topic: rewrite type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#11975 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Feb 14, 2024
`pytest.approx()` incorrectly flags nested sequences as unequal Open

topic: approx

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

pytest-dev/pytest#11945 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 7, 2024
Allow plugins to cause a "command line usage error" Open

type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#11940 · 8 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 6, 2024
add_marker with usefixtures no longer works with pytest 8.0.0 Open

type: regression

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

pytest-dev/pytest#11873 · 7 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 28, 2024
`pytester`: setting `HOME` to `tmpdir` causes `pytest` no to be found Open

plugin: pytester

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

pytest-dev/pytest#11805 · Opened Jan 12, 2024
Assertion rewriting issue with editable-installed plugins Open

topic: rewrite type: bug

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

pytest-dev/pytest#11783 · Opened Jan 6, 2024
Reference leaks caused by `@pytest.mark.parametrize` on newer Python versions Open

topic: parametrize type: refactoring

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

pytest-dev/pytest#11773 · 5 comments · Opened Jan 4, 2024
Performance regression on services heavy on logging starting from 6.0.0rc1 Open

plugin: logging type: performance

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

pytest-dev/pytest#11772 · 4 comments · Opened Jan 4, 2024
Pytest sometimes fails with the INTERNALERROR message Open

topic: collection

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

pytest-dev/pytest#11765 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 3, 2024
pytest --doctest-modules crashes on file-level `__test__ = False` Open

plugin: doctests status: critical type: backward compatibility type: removal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#11730 · 13 comments · Opened Dec 21, 2023
[doctest] Allow filtering which py files are considered for --doctest-modules Open

plugin: doctests type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#11716 · Opened Dec 17, 2023
Use richer colors pygments terminal formatter? Open

topic: reporting

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

pytest-dev/pytest#11666 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 4, 2023
parametrizing a fixture with indirect=True does not handle dicts correctly Open

topic: parametrize type: enhancement

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

pytest-dev/pytest#11632 · 3 comments · Opened Nov 23, 2023
setUpClass errors, but setUp fails on unittest.TestCase Open

plugin: unittest

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

pytest-dev/pytest#11604 · 4 comments · Opened Nov 10, 2023
type-safe markers Open

topic: marks topic: typing

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

pytest-dev/pytest#11602 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Nov 9, 2023
Indirect parametrization with scope="function" does not always work Open

topic: fixtures type: bug

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

pytest-dev/pytest#11575 · 2 comments · Opened Nov 1, 2023
Using Fixtures as Parameters Open

topic: fixtures type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#11532 · 4 comments · 18 reactions · Opened Oct 21, 2023
Improve error message in presence of conflicting options Open

type: enhancement

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

pytest-dev/pytest#11514 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 18, 2023
Make xpass a failure again Open

topic: reporting type: backward compatibility

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

pytest-dev/pytest#11467 · 13 comments · 6 reactions · Opened Sep 25, 2023
Option for pytest.fail to not print exception context Open

topic: reporting type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#11457 · 3 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Sep 20, 2023
experiment with the effect of different terminal widths on the test result and testing in general Open

topic: reporting type: selftests

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

pytest-dev/pytest#11433 · 6 comments · Opened Sep 11, 2023
`test_pdb_continue_with_recursive_debug` randomly fails Open

type: bug type: selftests

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

pytest-dev/pytest#11411 · Opened Sep 7, 2023
TestLocalPath.test_chdir_gone fails on OpenIndiana Open

type: selftests

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

pytest-dev/pytest#11402 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 6, 2023
An easier way to have test cases in built-in functions Open

topic: collection type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#11388 · 6 comments · Opened Sep 4, 2023
Fine grain output verbosity Open

topic: reporting type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#11387 · 6 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Sep 4, 2023
Data stored in test instance objects is never released Open

type: performance

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

pytest-dev/pytest#11374 · 13 comments · Opened Aug 31, 2023
`params` on Fixtures are silently hidden when the Fixture is shadowed but used Open

topic: fixtures topic: parametrize

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

pytest-dev/pytest#11337 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 22, 2023
support plugins as a class Open

topic: typing type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#11300 · 7 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 9, 2023
Pytest Discovery broken when multiple modules have overlapping paths Open

topic: collection topic: config

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

pytest-dev/pytest#11275 · 2 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Aug 2, 2023
The colors of the logs are not displayed using --capture=tee-sys Open

plugin: capture plugin: logging type: enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 40/100

pytest-dev/pytest#11270 · 6 comments · Opened Aug 1, 2023
Change how nodeids are created in relation to rootdir Open

topic: collection type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#11245 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 23, 2023
Custom plugins with required options break CLI parsing when using pytest.main() Open

topic: config

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

pytest-dev/pytest#11240 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 22, 2023
Some possible improvements in fixtures module Open

type: proposal type: refactoring

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

pytest-dev/pytest#11234 · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 20, 2023
Dynamically generate plugins table with sortable columns Open

type: docs type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#11232 · 5 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Jul 19, 2023
`ImportPathMismatchError` from subprojects with same test folder structure Open

topic: collection

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

pytest-dev/pytest#11206 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 13, 2023
How should fixtures scopes work for nested packages and classes? Open

topic: fixtures

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

pytest-dev/pytest#11205 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 13, 2023
some test cases not being found when running pytest.main(['--co']) due to Unicode-encoded test case names Open

topic: collection

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

pytest-dev/pytest#11202 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 13, 2023
pytest_keyboard_interrupt called on collection error Open

topic: collection

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

pytest-dev/pytest#11200 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 11, 2023

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