Re: [Docutils-develop] [docutils:feature-requests] #81 0.17.1: pytest is failing

[Guenter M. <mi...@us...>]

Dear Adam, dear Docutils developers,

an update on the test suite refactoring:

On 2022-11-19, Guenter Milde via Docutils-develop wrote:
> On 2022-11-10, Adam Turner via Docutils-develop wrote:
>
>> With [r9237] the test-suite refactoring project is complete -- using
>> `pytest` and `python -m unittest` now work "out-of-the-box".
>
> Thank you for picking up the large project of modernising and
> "disentangling" the Docutils test suite.
...

>     # ./alltests.py
>     [...]
>     Ran 1739 tests in 5.053s
...
>     #> pytest-3 --quiet .
...
>     369 passed, 2 skipped, 621 warnings in 6.50s
>
> * Only 369 out of 1739 tests reported by "alltests.py" are reported.
>   Is this different counting or does pytest miss more than half of the tests?
>
  * The warnings do not show up when testing with `alltest.py`
>   It seems `pytest` bypasses this and reports anyway??

Fortunately, the report does not stand in the way, so we can leave this as-is.


>     #> python3.9 -m unittest .
...
>     ValueError: Empty module name

I could fix the import errors, now I get::

      Ran 377 tests in 5.045s

377 << 1739, missing coverage or different counting?

>
> The "nose" test framework fails, too::

Fixed but also not all test are found::

   > nosetests3 
   .........................S..........................................
   ----------------------------------------------------------------------
   Ran 68 tests in 0.320s
   
   OK (SKIP=1)


> Running idividual test files
should work now as well (I did not test all of them, though).


Günter