it easier to write, find and run tests.

By default, nose will run tests in files or directories under the current working directory whose names include "test" or "Test" at a word boundary (like "test_this" or "functional_test" or "TestClass" but not "libtest"). Test output is similar to that of unittest, but also includes captured stdout output from failing tests, for easy print-style debugging.

These features, and many more, are customizable through the use of plugins. Plugins included with nose provide support for doctest, code coverage and profiling, flexible attribute-based test selection, output capture and more. More information about writing plugins may be found on in the nose API documentation, here: http://readthedocs.org/docs/nose/

If you have recently reported a bug marked as fixed, or have a craving for the very latest, you may want the development version instead: https://github.com/nose-devs/nose/tarball/master#egg=nose-dev