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diff --git a/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.3.5.rst b/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.3.5.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..c4e91e0e6 --- /dev/null +++ b/testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pytest/doc/en/announce/release-2.3.5.rst @@ -0,0 +1,97 @@ +pytest-2.3.5: bug fixes and little improvements +=========================================================================== + +pytest-2.3.5 is a maintenance release with many bug fixes and little +improvements. See the changelog below for details. No backward +compatibility issues are foreseen and all plugins which worked with the +prior version are expected to work unmodified. Speaking of which, a +few interesting new plugins saw the light last month: + +- pytest-instafail: show failure information while tests are running +- pytest-qt: testing of GUI applications written with QT/Pyside +- pytest-xprocess: managing external processes across test runs +- pytest-random: randomize test ordering + +And several others like pytest-django saw maintenance releases. +For a more complete list, check out +https://pypi.python.org/pypi?%3Aaction=search&term=pytest&submit=search. + +For general information see: + + http://pytest.org/ + +To install or upgrade pytest: + + pip install -U pytest # or + easy_install -U pytest + +Particular thanks to Floris, Ronny, Benjamin and the many bug reporters +and fix providers. + +may the fixtures be with you, +holger krekel + + +Changes between 2.3.4 and 2.3.5 +----------------------------------- + +- never consider a fixture function for test function collection + +- allow re-running of test items / helps to fix pytest-reruntests plugin + and also help to keep less fixture/resource references alive + +- put captured stdout/stderr into junitxml output even for passing tests + (thanks Adam Goucher) + +- Issue 265 - integrate nose setup/teardown with setupstate + so it doesnt try to teardown if it did not setup + +- issue 271 - dont write junitxml on slave nodes + +- Issue 274 - dont try to show full doctest example + when doctest does not know the example location + +- issue 280 - disable assertion rewriting on buggy CPython 2.6.0 + +- inject "getfixture()" helper to retrieve fixtures from doctests, + thanks Andreas Zeidler + +- issue 259 - when assertion rewriting, be consistent with the default + source encoding of ASCII on Python 2 + +- issue 251 - report a skip instead of ignoring classes with init + +- issue250 unicode/str mixes in parametrization names and values now works + +- issue257, assertion-triggered compilation of source ending in a + comment line doesn't blow up in python2.5 (fixed through py>=1.4.13.dev6) + +- fix --genscript option to generate standalone scripts that also + work with python3.3 (importer ordering) + +- issue171 - in assertion rewriting, show the repr of some + global variables + +- fix option help for "-k" + +- move long description of distribution into README.rst + +- improve docstring for metafunc.parametrize() + +- fix bug where using capsys with pytest.set_trace() in a test + function would break when looking at capsys.readouterr() + +- allow to specify prefixes starting with "_" when + customizing python_functions test discovery. (thanks Graham Horler) + +- improve PYTEST_DEBUG tracing output by puting + extra data on a new lines with additional indent + +- ensure OutcomeExceptions like skip/fail have initialized exception attributes + +- issue 260 - don't use nose special setup on plain unittest cases + +- fix issue134 - print the collect errors that prevent running specified test items + +- fix issue266 - accept unicode in MarkEvaluator expressions + |