On 04/09/15 01:51, anatoly techtonik wrote:
>         1. list tests with quick filter (preview test selection)
>
>     To list the collected/matching tests, just add the '--collect-only'
>     option.
>
>
> I'd prefer a better command line shortcut, because I use this pretty often.

Maybe create an alias?

>      From python2.7 the unittest module has decorators for skipping
>     test[1], but for the foreseeable future Roundup also supports
>     python2.6. The pytest has its own test skipping decorators[2] which
>     has support for python2.6, so if we were to take advantage of that
>     we would be tied to using pytest. If we drop support for python2.6
>     then we could use the unittest skip decorators instead of the pytest
>     ones.
>
>
> Are there other way to skip tests instead of decorators?

Not in a way that I am aware of that will display to the user which 
tests have been skipped.

If might be possible to hide the tests behind an if clause, but that 
seems like an ugly hack and wouldn't convey to the users that any tests 
have been skipped (or why).