Release Notes

python-nitrate release notes

Manual section:1
Manual group:User Commands
Date: February 2012

python-nitrate 1.0

There have been many substantial changes in the python-nitrate implementation and a bunch of new features have been added. Many thanks to Filip Holec for contributing substantial part of the new caching implementation. Here's the summary of important changes:

Improved Performance

New Object Attributes

Other Features

Under the Hood

Test Suite

API Changes

Several backward-incompatible changes had to be introduced in order to improve the performance and because of necessary cleanup. Below you can find the list of differences in the module API.

Object id cannot be provided as string:

− TestCase("1234")
+ TestCase(1234)

Tags are now regular objects and should be used instead of strings (although for adding/removing and presence checking backward compatiblity is silently preserved):

− testcase.tags.add("TestParametrized")
+ testcase.tags.add(Tag("TestParametrized"))
− "TestParametrized" in testcase.tags
+ Tag("TestParametrized") in testcase.tags

Default version has been moved from Product into TestPlan class. Placing the default product version inside the Product class was by mistake. The TestPlan class has been adjusted by adding a new attribute 'version' as this is the proper place for this data:

− Product(name="Fedora", version="20)
+ Product(name="Fedora")
+ Product("Fedora")

This is also why version is now a required field when creating a new test plan:

− TestPlan(name=N, product=P, type=T)
+ TestPlan(name=N, product=P, version=V, type=T)

Long-ago obsoleted functions for setting log level, cache level and coloring mode were removed, all log level constants are now directly available in the main module:

− setLogLevel(log.DEBUG)
+ set_log_level(LOG_DEBUG)

− setColorMode(COLOR_OFF)
+ set_color_mode(COLOR_OFF)

− setCacheLevel(CACHE_PERSISTENT)
+ set_cache_level(CACHE_PERSISTENT)

Utility function color() does not reflect the current color mode automatically. Instead, new parameter 'enabled' should be used to disable the coloring when desired, for example:

color("txt", color="red", enabled=config.Coloring().enabled())