Related Work

The following projects were considered:

• pytest

  • industry standard unit testing framework that was chosen as target

• pytest-mpi

  • The plugin allows for MPI-parallel execution of tests, i.e. running multiple tests in parallel.

  • It does not implement MPI-parallel tests.

• pytest-forked / pytest-isolate

  • The plugins runs tests in a forked subprocess.

  • This gives safety w.r.t. segfaults happening in the subprocess.

  • It does not allow for MPI-parallel execution.

• testflo

  • testflo implements MPI-parallel execution of tests

  • But for unittest and without safety w.r.t. segfaults and MPI_Abort