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pyATS is an end-to-end testing ecosystem, specializing in data-driven and reusable testing, and engineered to be suitable for Agile, rapid development iterations. Extensible by design, pyATS enables developers start with small, simple and linear test cases, and scale towards large, complex and asynchronous test suites.
pyATS is initially developed internally in Cisco, and is now available to the
general public starting late 2017 through Cisco DevNet_. Visit the pyATS
home page at
https://developer.cisco.com/site/pyats/
.. _Cisco DevNet: https://developer.cisco.com/
This is a sub-component of pyATS that wraps Python multiprocessing to allow easier asychronous execution of arbitrary functions.
pyATS currently supports Python 3.4+ on Linux & Mac systems. Windows platforms are not yet supported.
.. code-block:: console
# install pyats as a whole
$ pip install pyats
# to upgrade this package manually
$ pip install --upgrade pyats.async
# to install alpha/beta versions, add --pre
$ pip install --pre pyats.async
For more information on setting up your Python development environment,
such as creating virtual environment and installing pip on your system,
please refer to Virtual Environment and Packages_ in Python tutorials.
.. _Virtual Environment and Packages: https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/venv.html
FAQs
pyATS Async: Asynchronous Execution of Codes
We found that pyats.async demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 3 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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