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diff --git a/doc/build/changelog/changelog_09.rst b/doc/build/changelog/changelog_09.rst index 01a083716..aa33c2edb 100644 --- a/doc/build/changelog/changelog_09.rst +++ b/doc/build/changelog/changelog_09.rst @@ -23,6 +23,34 @@ wouldn't work properly for Python built-ins. .. change:: + :tags: feature, general + + Support has been added for pytest to run tests. This runner + is currently being supported in addition to nose, and will likely + be preferred to nose going forward. The nose plugin system used + by SQLAlchemy has been split out so that it works under pytest as + well. There are no plans to drop support for nose at the moment + and we hope that the test suite itself can continue to remain as + agnostic of testing platform as possible. See the file + README.unittests.rst for updated information on running tests + with pytest. + + The test plugin system has also been enhanced to support running + tests against mutiple database URLs at once, by specifying the ``--db`` + and/or ``--dburi`` flags multiple times. This does not run the entire test + suite for each database, but instead allows test cases that are specific + to certain backends make use of that backend as the test is run. + When using pytest as the test runner, the system will also run + specific test suites multiple times, once for each database, particularly + those tests within the "dialect suite". The plan is that the enhanced + system will also be used by Alembic, and allow Alembic to run + migration operation tests against multiple backends in one run, including + third-party backends not included within Alembic itself. + Third party dialects and extensions are also encouraged to standardize + on SQLAlchemy's test suite as a basis; see the file README.dialects.rst + for background on building out from SQLAlchemy's test platform. + + .. change:: :tags: orm feature :tickets: 2976 |