3 percent of Python codebases we checked had silently failing unit tests

Re:3 percent of Python codebases we checked had silently fai... by robertlagrant on Friday February 18, 2022 @03:45AM (#30383470)

> Every individual third-party library will have to overcome that threshold by being useful enough. And I doubt that, for most people, pytest is that much better to work with than the built-in unittest is.

This sounds more like you're saying that pytest wouldn't overcome that threshold; I was saying that has already happened, at least according to the article's statement.

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Re:3 percent of Python codebases we checked had silently fai... by teddyh on Monday February 21, 2022 @06:51PM (#30422328)

Maybe. But I would personally guess that most people nowadays are way too eager to use a new library than would be good for their projects in the long run. I very much doubt that most new libraries are that much better than the Python standard library counterparts that it’s worth using them in non-toy projects. Of course, all progress depends on the unreasonable man, etc.

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