Show Notification when Pytest Discovery Fails

[mtreca]

Hi!
Now that the Python extension supports partial discovery of tests, it would be nice to be notified if something went wrong during test discovery. AFAIK the only way of checking if discovery failed at the moment is either to scroll to the bottom of the test list or to manually read the Python discovery logs. Maybe an opt-in notification popup on error would be sufficient?

[janosh]

I agree the current UX could be improved. When test discovery fails, you get a small notification that it did but no hint as to the reason. Even just an error msg would be helpful.

[eleanorjboyd]

great idea- will put this on the list of things to do!

[eleanorjboyd]

@brettcannon @luabud @karthiknadig thoughts on this? Not sure how we determine if a notification is too noisy since I know that's a complaint from users.

[mtreca]

For (maybe unneeded) input: opt-in error notifications would be ok for me as an user.

[github-actions]

Thanks for the feature request! We are going to give the community 60 days from when this issue was created to provide 7 👍 upvotes on the opening comment to gauge general interest in this idea. If there's enough upvotes then we will consider this feature request in our future planning. If there's unfortunately not enough upvotes then we will close this issue.

[brettcannon]

Thank you to everyone who upvoted this issue! Since the community showed interest in this feature request we will leave this issue open as something to consider implementing at some point in the future.

We do encourage people to continue 👍 the first/opening comment as it helps us prioritize our work based on what the community seems to want the most.