[Avocado-devel] Requesting support for pytest in avocado framework

[Cleber Rosa]

Sunita Verma (sunitav) writes:

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> Hello Avocado team,
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Hi Sunita!

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> We are using pytest to test our huge codebase and we are intending to use avocado+jenkins based system to do regression
> testing.
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Good to hear that Avocado is in your plans.  Would you be able to share
the exact use case?  I'm specially interested in the Avocado features
you believe will be helping the most with your setup.

> It is difficult to rewrite all pytests to unittest or avocado Test. 
>

They have some conceptual differences indeed, and that can add a lot to
the rewrite challenge.

> Could you please add support for pytest in avocado framework? Or do you have any plugin that we can use?
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We keep the development plans in our GitHub issues page[1], along with a
Kanban board[2].  That means you can start by opening an issue, and
providing as much information as possible.  From that point, the team
will consider the importance and impact of the feature.  Usually an
issue will move it from Long Term Backlog -> Short Term Backlog -> In
progress -> Done.

Of course, Avocado is a community project, so actual contributions for
such features are the best way to see a feature developed as soon as
possible.

In the topic of supporting new test types on Avocado, I recommend you
look at our plugin documentation[3].

BTW, I'm not aware of a ready to use plugin to run pytest tests under
Avocado at this time.  One general solution is to treat each "pytest
$test_name" invocation as a test, but that is not an optimal solution.

Best,
- Cleber.

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> Thanks & Regards
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> Sunita
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[1] - https://github.com/avocado-framework/avocado/issues
[2] - https://github.com/avocado-framework/avocado/projects/1
[3] - https://avocado-framework.readthedocs.io/en/89.0/guides/contributor/chapters/plugins.html#new-test-type-plugin-example

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Cleber Rosa
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