Bug#1111640: ITP: python-pytest-run-parallel -- Run many instances of the same test in a thread pool

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org

* Package name    : python-pytest-run-parallel
  Version         : 0.6.1
  Upstream Contact: Quansight Labs <emargffoy@quansight.com>
* URL             : https://github.com/Quansight-Labs/pytest-run-parallel
* License         : Expat
  Programming Lang: Python
  Description     : Run many instances of the same test in a thread pool

This pytest plugin takes a set of tests that would be normally be run 
serially and execute them in parallel.

The main goal of pytest-run-parallel is to discover thread-safety issues 
that could exist when using C libraries. This is of vital importance 
after PEP703, which provides a path for a CPython implementation without 
depending on the Global Interpreter Lock (GIL), thus allowing for proper 
parallelism in programs that make use of the CPython interpreter.

This plugin is not an alternative to pytest-xdist and does not run all 
of the tests in a test suite simultaneously in a thread pool. Instead, 
it runs many instances of the same test in a thread pool. It is only 
useful as a tool to do multithreaded stress tests using an existing test 
suite and is not useful to speed up the execution of a test suite via 
multithreaded parallelism.


This is a new dependency of pydantic-core, which I maintain.  I intend 
to maintain this within the Debian Python Team.

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Colin Watson (he/him)                              [cjwatson@debian.org]