Nibabel tests

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• Krzysztof (Chris) Gorgolewski, Google (@chrisgorgo)
• Dorota Jarecka, MIT
• Chris Markiewicz, Stanford (@effigies)

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Brief description of what was accomplished with this project

Nibabel project has a large test coverage, but all of the test are run and written using Nosetes or Unitttest framework. We decided to move the test suits to pytest, that is newer, and highly popular python testing framework.

We've started moving the test using nose2pytest library for making basic and one-line changes in the tests, and manually changing more complex structures of the tests.

The work will be continue today and will be sponsored by Amtrak wifi and power support :)

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Resources

Links to the repositories involved in your project
https://github.com/nipy/nibabel
nipy/nibabel#840

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[effigies]

Deliverable

The nibabel test suite uses the abandoned (stable, but unmaintained) nose library. For the sake of continued support for many neuroimaging formats, such as NIfTI-1/2 and AFNI's BRIK/HEAD, moving to a modern, supported test library will lower the barrier to entry to new contributors and maintainers.

This will also facilitate the inclusion of nitransforms in nibabel.

Status

Partially completed. No apparent reductions in coverage in the process thus far.

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Resources

• https://github.com/nipy/nibabel/ (https://nipy.org/nibabel)
• Pull requests: Dorota, Chris G