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I decided to open this issue as a place to document any future discussion about this topic. The PISA guide on general conventions has been stating for a long time that the plan is to integrate pytest, I presume to auto-detect, run, and report on the results of unit tests.
Installing pytest has been part of several workflows since #701, but apparently only because of the existence of two lines in two unit tests (binning.test_MultiDimBinning() and pisa_tests.test_kde_stage) that are relying on pytest.raises() as a context manager.
#580 looks as if it was meant as a custom implementation of some pytest-like functionality, avoiding it as external dependency, but I'm not sure whether this interpretation is correct. The merged branch was even called "pytest".