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python testing sprint June 20th-26th 2016
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The pytest core group held the biggest sprint
in its history in June 2016, taking place in the black forest town Freiburg
in Germany. In February 2016 we started a `funding
campaign on Indiegogo to cover expenses
<http://igg.me/at/pytest-sprint/x/4034848>`_ The page also mentions
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some preliminary topics:
- improving pytest-xdist test scheduling to take into account
fixture setups and explicit user hints.
- provide info on fixture dependencies during --collect-only
- tying pytest-xdist to tox so that you can do "py.test -e py34"
to run tests in a particular tox-managed virtualenv. Also
look into making pytest-xdist use tox environments on
remote ssh-sides so that remote dependency management becomes
easier.
- refactoring the fixture system so more people understand it :)
- integrating PyUnit setup methods as autouse fixtures.
possibly adding ways to influence ordering of same-scoped
fixtures (so you can make a choice of which fixtures come
before others)
- fixing bugs and issues from the tracker, really an endless source :)
Participants
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Over 20 participants took part from 4 continents, including employees
from Splunk, Personalkollen, Cobe.io, FanDuel and Dolby. Some newcomers
mixed with developers who have worked on pytest since its beginning, and
of course everyone in between.
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Ana Ribeiro, Brazil
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Ronny Pfannschmidt, Germany
Sprint organisation, schedule
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People arrived in Freiburg on the 19th, with sprint development taking
place on 20th, 21st, 22nd, 24th and 25th. On the 23rd we took a break
day for some hot hiking in the Black Forest.
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Sprint activity was organised heavily around pairing, with plenty of group
discusssions to take advantage of the high bandwidth, and lightning talks
as well.
Money / funding
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The Indiegogo campaign aimed for 11000 USD and in the end raised over
12000, to reimburse travel costs, pay for a sprint venue and catering.
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Excess money is reserved for further sprint/travel funding for pytest/tox
contributors.