Project examples

Here are some examples of projects using pytest (please send notes via Contact channels):

• PyPy, Python with a JIT compiler, running over 21000 tests

• the MoinMoin Wiki Engine

• sentry, realtime app-maintenance and exception tracking

• Astropy and affiliated packages

• tox, virtualenv/Hudson integration tool

• PyPM ActiveState’s package manager

• Fom a fluid object mapper for FluidDB

• applib cross-platform utilities

• six Python 2 and 3 compatibility utilities

• pediapress MediaWiki articles

• mwlib mediawiki parser and utility library

• The Translate Toolkit for localization and conversion

• execnet rapid multi-Python deployment

• pylib cross-platform path, IO, dynamic code library

• bbfreeze create standalone executables from Python scripts

• pdb++ a fancier version of PDB

• pudb full-screen console debugger for python

• py-s3fuse Amazon S3 FUSE based filesystem

• waskr WSGI Stats Middleware

• guachi global persistent configs for Python modules

• Circuits lightweight Event Driven Framework

• pygtk-helpers easy interaction with PyGTK

• QuantumCore statusmessage and repoze openid plugin

• pydataportability libraries for managing the open web

• XIST extensible HTML/XML generator

• tiddlyweb optionally headless, extensible RESTful datastore

• fancycompleter for colorful tab-completion

• Paludis tools for Gentoo Paludis package manager

• Gerald schema comparison tool

• abjad Python API for Formalized Score control

• bu a microscopic build system

• katcp Telescope communication protocol over Twisted

• kss plugin timer

• pyudev a pure Python binding to the Linux library libudev

• pytest-localserver a plugin for pytest that provides an httpserver and smtpserver

• pytest-monkeyplus a plugin that extends monkeypatch

These projects help integrate pytest into other Python frameworks:

• pytest-django for Django

• zope.pytest for Zope and Grok

• pytest_gae for Google App Engine

• There is some work underway for Kotti, a CMS built in Pyramid/Pylons

Some organisations using pytest

• Square Kilometre Array, Cape Town

• Some Mozilla QA people use pytest to distribute their Selenium tests

• Shootq

• Stups department of Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf

• cellzome

• Open End, Gothenborg

• Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Warsaw

• merlinux, Germany

• ESSS, Brazil

• many more … (please be so kind to send a note via Contact channels)