Added use of pytest-forked to CI unit test runs

Due to apparent bugs in pyparsing, this can significantly speed up unit test execution.

Also:
- Removed use of pexpect in unit tests

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 35 deletions

diff --git a/tests/test_cmd2.py b/tests/test_cmd2.py
index 5facd0ac..6de86b2d 100644
--- a/tests/test_cmd2.py
+++ b/tests/test_cmd2.py
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ import io
 import tempfile
 
 import mock
-import pexpect
 import pytest
 import six
 
@@ -1502,37 +1501,3 @@ def test_poutput_none(base_app):
     out = base_app.stdout.buffer
     expected = ''
     assert out == expected
-
-
-@pytest.mark.skipif(sys.platform == 'win32' or sys.platform.startswith('lin'),
-                    reason="pexpect doesn't have a spawn() function on Windows and readline doesn't work on TravisCI")
-def test_persistent_history(request):
-    """Will run on macOS to verify expected persistent history behavior."""
-    test_dir = os.path.dirname(request.module.__file__)
-    persistent_app = os.path.join(test_dir, '..', 'examples', 'persistent_history.py')
-
-    python = 'python3'
-    if six.PY2:
-        python = 'python2'
-
-    command = '{} {}'.format(python, persistent_app)
-
-    # Start an instance of the persistent history example and send it a few commands
-    child = pexpect.spawn(command)
-    prompt = 'ph> '
-    child.expect(prompt)
-    child.sendline('help')
-    child.expect(prompt)
-    child.sendline('help history')
-    child.expect(prompt)
-    child.sendline('quit')
-    child.close()
-
-    # Start a 2nd instance of the persistent history example and send it an up arrow to verify persistent history
-    up_arrow = '\x1b[A'
-    child2 = pexpect.spawn(command)
-    child2.expect(prompt)
-    child2.send(up_arrow)
-    child2.expect('quit')
-    assert child2.after == b'quit'
-    child2.close()