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nose

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nose extends unittest to make testing easier

Last release 11 years ago
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Ships fairly regularly
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Nearly every release is documented
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16 years old
14 releases · first in 2010

Release timeline

14 releases since 2010

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Releases

1.3.72 Jun 2015
Fix loading packages from capitalised package on Windows Patch by Thomas Kluyver
Fix loading packages from capitalised package on Windows Patch by Thomas Kluyver
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1.3.64 Apr 2015
Re-release of 1.3.5 with wheels fixed.
Re-release of 1.3.5 with wheels fixed.
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1.3.5
Fix #875: nose doesn't collect tests when subpackage is given as arg
Fix #875: nose doesn't collect tests when subpackage is given as arg

Fix #809: tests not discovered for namespace packages on Windows

Fix #815: "ValueError: unsupported pickle protocol" with --with-id

Wrap the working dir path name in quotes when reporting an error. Patch by Őry Máté.

Fix #887: Fix a discrepancy in test names between Python 2 and Python 3

Fix #131: Use os.stat() to check if file is executable Patch by Arnon Yaari.

Fix #820 and #719: Fix coverage plugin with multiprocess Patch by Nicolas Grasset.

1.3.23 May 2014

Fixed an issue where build_ext was not working under setup.py nosetest Patch by Michael Crusoe

Fixed an issue where build_ext was not working under setup.py nosetest Patch by Michael Crusoe
Fixed #786: generator method fails with callable instance Patch by Antoine Dechaume
Fixed a traceback when using string exceptions
Fixed #792: "Not a directory" error when using python setup.py nosetests
Fixed #779: xunit report file is written in --where directory
Fixed #782: Test failures with Python >= 3.3 Patch by Dmitry Shachnev
Fixed #780: Fix a regression with Python 3
Fixed #783: try_run is broken with Python 3.4

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1.3.110 Mar 2014Deprecated

Fixed a suppressed deprecation warning Patch by Arnon Yaari.

The log capture plugin now correctly applies filters that were added using addFilter. Patch by Malthe Borch.
Corrected a reference to the multiprocessing plugin in the documentation. Patch by Nick Loadholtes.
Fixed #447: doctests fail when getpackage() returns None Patch by Matthew Brett.
Fixed #749: xunit exceeds recursion limit Patch by André Caron.
Fixed a number of unicode-related issues. Patch by John Szakmeister.
Added the ability to ignore config files via an environment variable Patch by Lukasz Balcerzak
Fixed #720: nose with detailed errors raises encoding error Patch by John Szakmeister. Thanks to Guillaume Ayoub for the test case.
Fixed #692: UnicodeDecodeError in xunit when capturing stdout and stderr Patch by John Szakmeister.
Fixed #693: Python 2.4 incompatibilities Patch by John Szakmeister.
Don't save zero-byte xunit test reports Patch by Dan Savilonis.
Fix Importer.importFromPath to be able to import modules whose names start with init Patch by Paul Bonser.
Add a fake isatty() method to Tee Patch by Jimmy Wennlund.
Fix #700: Tee is missing the writelines() method Patch by John Szakmeister.
Fix #649: UnicodeDecodeError when an exception contains encoded strings Patch by John Szakmeister.
Fix #687: verbosity is not a flag Patch by John Szakmeister.
Fixed a suppressed deprecation warning Patch by Arnon Yaari.
Fixed some broken links in the documentation Patch by Arnon Yaari.
Add missing format parameter in error message Patch by Etienne Millon.
Switched docs to point at the GitHub site for the issue tracker Patch by Daniel Beck.
Fix #447: doctests fail when getpackage() returns None Patch by Matthew Brett.
Fix #366: make --pdb report on errors and failures. Use --pdb-error to get the old behavior. Patch by Arnon Yaari.
Fix #501: Imported test generators are misrecognized as simple test functions Patch by John Szakmeister.
Added a test for issue #501 Patch by Michael Killough.
Use SkipTest from unittest2, if available, for better integration with testtools Patch by Ian Wienand.
Fix #759: Test failures with Python 3.4 Patch by Barry Warsaw.
Add a note about executable files in the usage, and how to workaround it Patch by Michael Dunn.
Fix #743: fix an incorrect regex in writing_tests.rst Patch by Anne Moroney.
Fix #690: Don't traceback when coverage reports fail. Patch by John Szakmeister.
Display the report summary and stack traces even if Ctrl-C was pressed during the test run. Patch by Kevin Qiu.
Fix #771: attr plugin is broken when parent and child share same method name with different attributes Patch by John Szakmeister. Test case provided by Thomas Grainger.
Fix #728: attrib plugin rejects any staticmethod Patch by John Szakmesiter. Test case provided by Thomas Kluyver.
Fix the plugin testing example. Patch by Charlie Dominio.
Instruct coverage instance to cover requested packages only.

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1.3.08 Apr 2013

Bump nose2 version in NEWS

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Additional notes

Fix #556: fix selecting specific tests in the setuptools command. Patch by Andrey Golovizin.
Fixed timed decorator to return the result of the wrapped function. Patch by Praful Mathur.
Fixed #513: exception in test generator leads to a TypeError. Patch by Dmitry Shachnev.
Fixed #535: nose.importer causes bizarre import errors if sys.path includes symlinks. Patch by Antoine Pitrou.
Added support for Python 3.3. Patch by John Szakmeister and Bradley Froehle.
Added the ability to skip generating .pyc files with --no-byte-complie. Patch by John Szakmeister.
Suppress tracebacks caused by configuration errors (#401). Patch by Andrea Corbellini.
Fixed doctest failures under Python 3 (#519). Patch by John Szakmeister.
Fixed test_address's checking for builtins to work with Python 2 and 3. Patch by Joe Mathes and John Szakmeister.
Fixed a bug where nose.tools was not being installed on systems without setuptools. (#554) Patch by Bradley Froehle.
Fixed a bug in xunit that was causing it to die ungracefully under Python 3. (#134) Patch by John Szakmeister.
Fixed #561: logcapture shouldn't buffer records, breaks %r point-in-time formatting. Patch by Santeri Paavolainen.
Taught xunit to capture stdout and stderr in the xunit report. Patch by John Szakmeister.
Repopulate nose.tools.all so that the autodocs generate correctly. Patch by Taavi Burns.
Fixed a bug where nose was failing to parse the NOSE_COVER_PACKAGE environment variable correctly. (#109) Patch by Churkin Oleg.
Taught nose to lookup it's usage text according to PEP-302. Patch by Bradely Froehle.
Fixed an ugly traceback when a test class was imported from another module, but was missing a method. (#595) Patch by Michael Williamson.
Fix formatFailure expection if missing tb in exc_info. (#603) Patch by Sascha Peilicke.
Taught the test suite to skip coverage tests if the coverage module is not available. (#597) Patch by Dmitry Shachnev.
Fix #135: ResultProxy._prepareErr mangles error output in some cases. Patch by Arnon Yaari.
Updated plugin documentation to fix numerous typos and incorrect names. Patch by Arnon Yaari.
Added the ability to run nose as a module. Patch by Stefano Rivera.
Fix installing Nose under Windows with Python 3.3. Patch by John Szakmeister.
Added documentation for --processes=0 and the default value of --process-timeout. Patch by Takafumi Arakaki.
Fixed broken references to non-existent documentation. Patch by Dmitry Shachnev.
Fix --cover-min-percentage with --cover-branches. (#626) Patch by B. W. Baugh.
Fix --cover-min-percentage with single packages. Patch by John Szakmeister.
Fixed reference to PEP 8 to use Sphinx construct for better linking. Patch by Mahhtijs van der Vleuten.
Fixed a reference to --cover-packages to use the correct option name. Patch by Wesley Baugh.
Updated Nose to avoid using the deprecated compiler module when possible. Patch by Kim Scheilbel.
Updated docstrings of formatFailure() and formatError(). Patch by Daniel Abel.
Several man page fixes for better formatting. Patches by Dmitry Shachnev.
Fixed a bug causing Nose to crash in directories that end in '.py'. (#612) Patch by Arnon Yaari.
Fixed a traceback when a test raises SystemExit and has captured output. (#526) Patch by Arnon Yaari.
Fixed ImportError running nosetests on namespace package in a subdirectory on Windows. (#19) Patch by Arnon Yaari.

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1.2.09 Sept 2012

Fixed issue where plugins included with addplugins keyword could be overridden by built-in plugins (or third-party plugins registered with setuptools)

Fixed issue where plugins included with addplugins keyword could be overridden by built-in plugins (or third-party plugins registered with setuptools) of the same name (#466). Patch by Brendan McCollam
Adds --cover-xml and --cover-xml-file (#311). Patch by Timothée Peignier.
Adds support for --cover-branches (related to #370). Patch by Timothée Peignier.
Fixed Unicode issue on Python 3.1 with coverage (#442)
fixed class level fixture handling in multiprocessing plugin
Clue in the unittest module so it no longer prints traceback frames for our clones of their simple assertion helpers (#453). Patch by Erik Rose.
Stop using the assert statement in ok_ and eq_ so they work under python -O (#504). Patch by Erik Rose.
Add loglevel option to logcapture plugin (#493). Patch by Arach Tchoupani.
Add doctest options flag (#7 from google code tracker). Patch by Michael Forbes.
Add support for using 2to3 with the nosetests setuptools command. Patch by Andrey Golovizin.
Add --cover-min-percentage flag to force test runs without sufficient coverage to fail (#540). Patch by Domen Kožar.
Add travis-ci configuraion (#545). Patch by Domen Kožar.
Call reactor.stop from twisted thread (#301). Patch by Adi Roiban.

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1.1.026 Jul 2011

Revised multiprocessing implementation so that it works for test generators (#399). Thanks to Rosen Diankov for the patch.

Revised multiprocessing implementation so that it works for test generators (#399). Thanks to Rosen Diankov for the patch.
More fixes to multiprocessing implemented by Buck Golemon and Gary Donovan (also part of #399).
Lots of improvements to the attrib plugin by Bobby Impollonia (#412, #411, #324 and #381)
Code coverage plugin now uses native HTML generation when coverage 3 is installed (#264). Thanks to Timothée Peignier for the patch.
Xunit plugin now shows test run time in fractions of a second (#317)
@attr (from nose.plugins.attrib) can now be used as a class decorator (#292)
Fixes Xunit plugin to handle non-UTF8 characters (#395)
Fixes Xunit plugin for reporting generator tests (#369)
Fixed problems with SkipTest in Python 3.2 (#389)
Fixed bug in doctest plugin under python 3. Thanks to Thomas Kluyver for the patch. (#391)
Fixes mishandling of custom exceptions during failures (#405)
Fixed subtle bug in --first-package-wins that made it unpredictable (#293)
Fixes case where teardown_class() was called more than once (#408). Thanks to Heng Liu for the patch.
Fixes coverage module names -- 'cal' used to also match calendar which was a bug (#433)
Fixes capture plugin when exception message contains non-ascii chars (#402)
Fixed bug in tests for twisted tools. Thanks to Thomas Kluyver for the patch.
Makes --plugins more succinct when there are no options (#235)

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