Issues

• Difference of behavior in assertRaises when used as context manager

  testing-cabal/testtools#601 · Filter by author stephenfin opened on Apr 5, 2026
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• Cannot suppress traceback in custom handler

  testing-cabal/testtools#545 · Filter by author jelmer opened on Dec 18, 2025

• Public API for getting test method / function

  testing-cabal/testtools#544 · Filter by author jelmer opened on Dec 18, 2025

• Support for retrying intermittently failing tests

  testing-cabal/testtools#543 · Filter by author jelmer opened on Dec 18, 2025

• Mandatory setUp & tearDown upcalling makes migrating to testtools harder

  testing-cabal/testtools#542 · Filter by author jelmer opened on Dec 18, 2025

• testtools does not conform to PEP 396

  testing-cabal/testtools#541 · Filter by author jelmer opened on Dec 18, 2025

• A test run should fail if scenarios have duplicate names

  testing-cabal/testtools#540 · Filter by author jelmer opened on Dec 18, 2025

• SynchronousDeferredRunTest does not use run_with_log_observers

  testing-cabal/testtools#539 · Filter by author jelmer opened on Dec 18, 2025

• Emit proper error message when tests.sort() failed

  testing-cabal/testtools#537 · Filter by author jelmer opened on Dec 18, 2025

• testtools sphinx documentation does not show a valid version number

  testing-cabal/testtools#536 · Filter by author jelmer opened on Dec 18, 2025

• No documentation of required packages for release automation.

  testing-cabal/testtools#535 · Filter by author jelmer opened on Dec 18, 2025

• Add verbosity to texttestresult

  testing-cabal/testtools#534 · Filter by author jelmer opened on Dec 18, 2025

• error description for raises with wrong type is too brief

  testing-cabal/testtools#533 · Filter by author jelmer opened on Dec 18, 2025

• linecache encoding fails in ipython notebook

  testing-cabal/testtools#532 · Filter by author jelmer opened on Dec 18, 2025

• load_tests doesn't work on package/__init__.py files.

  testing-cabal/testtools#531 · Filter by author jelmer opened on Dec 18, 2025

• MatchesStructure doesn't work with dicts

  testing-cabal/testtools#530 · Filter by author jelmer opened on Dec 18, 2025

• Using addDetail() is fiddly for simple cases

  testing-cabal/testtools#529 · Filter by author jelmer opened on Dec 18, 2025

• Too much stack shown on re-raised exceptions

  testing-cabal/testtools#528 · Filter by author jelmer opened on Dec 18, 2025

• Return values from tests are ignored

  testing-cabal/testtools#527 · Filter by author jelmer opened on Dec 18, 2025

• Add matcher for length of a sequence

  testing-cabal/testtools#526 · Filter by author jelmer opened on Dec 18, 2025

• Details from fixtures are not included in timed out Twisted tests

  testing-cabal/testtools#525 · Filter by author jelmer opened on Dec 18, 2025

• Can't use testtools snapshot with pkg_resources

  testing-cabal/testtools#524 · Filter by author jelmer opened on Dec 18, 2025

• no way to transiently disable frame hiding

  testing-cabal/testtools#523 · Filter by author jelmer opened on Dec 18, 2025

• Safety checks for Annotate and/or AnnotateMismatch

  testing-cabal/testtools#522 · Filter by author jelmer opened on Dec 18, 2025

• repr-like function that takes any object

  testing-cabal/testtools#521 · Filter by author jelmer opened on Dec 18, 2025