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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

Force set --log-level for all modules (and/or allow configuring per module) Open

plugin: logging type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#10266 · Opened Sep 2, 2022
Last-failed option missing tests when failed tests include a mix stable and random node IDs Open

topic: collection

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

pytest-dev/pytest#10265 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 2, 2022
Provide dedicated control over truncation of "short test summary info" lines Open

topic: reporting type: enhancement

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

pytest-dev/pytest#10264 · 8 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 1, 2022
--durations is tricked by freezegun Open

type: enhancement

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

pytest-dev/pytest#10245 · 3 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 25, 2022
PEP-657 enhanced error locations in pytest tracebacks Open

status: help wanted topic: tracebacks type: enhancement

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

pytest-dev/pytest#10224 · 6 comments · Opened Aug 16, 2022
[FR] when fixture is not found, but avaliable in siebling conftests, give them as hints Open

topic: fixtures type: enhancement

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

pytest-dev/pytest#10151 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 18, 2022
Marking fixtures as always-indirect Open

topic: fixtures type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#10101 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 4, 2022
enable gracefull handling and mitigation of -W error for pytest plugins and packages Open

plugin: warnings type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#10098 · 4 comments · Opened Jul 2, 2022
Provide a way to push configuration based on the environment Open

topic: config type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#10080 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 26, 2022
pdb + expect tests failing in Python 3.7 Open

platform: linux plugin: debugging type: infrastructure

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

pytest-dev/pytest#10042 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 14, 2022
Add a built-in way to compare sequences ignoring order Open

type: proposal

pytest-dev/pytest#10032 · 14 comments · 25 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 10, 2022
user controlled pytest-cache separation by environment Open

plugin: cache type: enhancement type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#10002 · Opened May 29, 2022
TypeError: A Message class can only inherit from Message when using pytester and a per-test import google.api_core.exceptions Open

plugin: pytester type: bug

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

pytest-dev/pytest#9981 · 2 comments · Opened May 20, 2022
Request for function to import module directly from file with rewritten assertions Open

topic: rewrite type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#9977 · 1 comment · Opened May 19, 2022
hook/mechanism to await awaitable results of fixtures/test results (asyncio/anyio/trio) Open

type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#9962 · 2 comments · Opened May 15, 2022
Custom markers don't show custom color in 'short test summary info' section Open

topic: marks topic: reporting

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

pytest-dev/pytest#9961 · 16 comments · Opened May 15, 2022
Leakage of NUMBER option out of docstring scope Open

plugin: doctests

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

pytest-dev/pytest#9924 · 1 comment · Opened May 7, 2022
Inconsistent behavior between pytest [file_or_dir] and pytest / pytest -m marker / pytest -k expression Open

status: help wanted topic: collection

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

pytest-dev/pytest#9848 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 9, 2022
Docs on warnings filters should note that `ResourceWarning` is often delayed Open

type: docs

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

pytest-dev/pytest#9825 · 7 comments · Opened Mar 28, 2022
Unhandled exceptions in `pytest_unconfigure` hooks exit `1` and not `3` - `ExitCode.INTERNAL_ERROR` Open

topic: config type: refactoring

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

pytest-dev/pytest#9808 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 22, 2022
Test regressions in PyPy3.9 7.3.8 Open

type: selftests

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

pytest-dev/pytest#9787 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 18, 2022
Reconsider how confcutdir works Open

topic: config type: proposal

pytest-dev/pytest#9782 · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 17, 2022
[Doctest] Doctest inspect unwrap passing func to _stop instead of obj Open

plugin: doctests type: regression

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

pytest-dev/pytest#9778 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 16, 2022
Way to disable stdout capturing from outside of a test Open

plugin: capture type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#9775 · 3 comments · 5 reactions · Opened Mar 15, 2022
Config-file discovery gets confused by custom command-line arguments Open

topic: config

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

pytest-dev/pytest#9749 · 8 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Mar 10, 2022
Re-evaluation of commandline after(!) full import of all conftest.py files Open

type: deprecation type: docs

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

pytest-dev/pytest#9739 · 5 comments · Opened Mar 7, 2022
Tweak `--tb=auto` to be equivalent to `--tb=short` Open

topic: reporting type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#9731 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 4, 2022
`testpaths` is ignored when specifying the config file with `-c` Open

topic: config

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

pytest-dev/pytest#9723 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 1, 2022
Scopes of several files are merged when specifying a config using `-c` Open

status: critical topic: collection type: bug type: regression

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 50/100

pytest-dev/pytest#9703 · 5 comments · Opened Feb 21, 2022
Finer grain fixture scope than function Open

topic: fixtures type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#9699 · 4 comments · Opened Feb 19, 2022
add append option to LoggingPlugin.set_log_path and return old path Open

plugin: logging type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#9687 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 14, 2022
Custom marks don't play nice with `pytest_plugins = ('my_plugin',)` in test file Open

plugin: warnings topic: config topic: marks

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

pytest-dev/pytest#9677 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 11, 2022
[v7.0.0 regression?] AssertionError: previous item was not torn down properly Open

type: regression

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

pytest-dev/pytest#9621 · 13 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Feb 5, 2022
pytest needs a supported way to specify paths relative to pytest root directory Open

topic: config type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#9619 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Feb 5, 2022
session.testscollected misnomer Open

type: bug

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

pytest-dev/pytest#9614 · 4 comments · Opened Feb 5, 2022
Test discovery finds module that doesn't exist Open

plugin: doctests topic: collection type: bug

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

pytest-dev/pytest#9586 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 1, 2022
Assert statements in Enum subclass definitions case errors when assertion rewriting is enabled Open

topic: rewrite type: bug

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

pytest-dev/pytest#9582 · 7 comments · Opened Jan 31, 2022
E _pytest.pathlib.ImportPathMismatchError Open

topic: collection type: bug

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

pytest-dev/pytest#9567 · 9 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jan 27, 2022
followup for partial outcome matching Open

type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#9543 · Opened Jan 25, 2022
add tools for warning erroing and filtering to support different workflows Open

type: enhancement type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#9535 · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 23, 2022
Stop testing a file on first fail Open

type: enhancement type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#9515 · 6 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Jan 15, 2022
Option to hide pluggy even with `--full-trace` is used Open

status: help wanted topic: reporting type: proposal

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

pytest-dev/pytest#9509 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 14, 2022
Get help for only custom options Open

topic: reporting type: enhancement

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

pytest-dev/pytest#9452 · 8 comments · 7 reactions · Opened Dec 27, 2021
run class scoped parametrized fixture's dependency fixture's teardown after each test class iteration Open

topic: fixtures

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

pytest-dev/pytest#9427 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Dec 20, 2021
pytest log init timing changed; now code-under-test with logging.basicConfig fails Open

plugin: logging status: help wanted type: regression

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

pytest-dev/pytest#9393 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 7, 2021
junitxml: Incorrect (?) file reported for inherited tests Open

plugin: junitxml topic: collection type: question

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

pytest-dev/pytest#9388 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 7, 2021
Review old "needs backport" PRs Open

type: infrastructure

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

pytest-dev/pytest#9384 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 7, 2021
pip download fails due to missing version in metadata Open

type: bug

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

pytest-dev/pytest#9370 · 4 comments · Opened Dec 6, 2021
Inconsistent wrapping of sys.stdout/stderr causes both capfd and capsys to fail Open

plugin: capture type: enhancement

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

pytest-dev/pytest#9361 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 1, 2021
pytest_addoption is called after CLI argparsing when conftest is in a subdirectory of `tests` and the path is not specified Open

topic: config topic: reporting type: question

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

pytest-dev/pytest#9337 · 3 reactions · Opened Nov 25, 2021

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