ENH: testing: add SkipTest and KnownFailureException

* use SkipTest in numpy tests instead of importing it from nose
* add a KnownFailureException as an alias for KnownFailureTest
  (the former is preferred, but the latter is kept for backcompat)
* rename the KnownFailure nose plugin into KnownFailurePlugin,
  and keep the old name for backcompat

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/numpy/testing/nosetester.py b/numpy/testing/nosetester.py
index c9c6d10f0..551e630ec 100644
--- a/numpy/testing/nosetester.py
+++ b/numpy/testing/nosetester.py
@@ -121,8 +121,8 @@ def run_module_suite(file_to_run=None, argv=None):
         argv = argv + [file_to_run]
 
     nose = import_nose()
-    from .noseclasses import KnownFailure
-    nose.run(argv=argv, addplugins=[KnownFailure()])
+    from .noseclasses import KnownFailurePlugin
+    nose.run(argv=argv, addplugins=[KnownFailurePlugin()])
 
 
 class NoseTester(object):
@@ -301,8 +301,8 @@ class NoseTester(object):
                    '--cover-tests', '--cover-erase']
         # construct list of plugins
         import nose.plugins.builtin
-        from .noseclasses import KnownFailure, Unplugger
-        plugins = [KnownFailure()]
+        from .noseclasses import KnownFailurePlugin, Unplugger
+        plugins = [KnownFailurePlugin()]
         plugins += [p() for p in nose.plugins.builtin.plugins]
         # add doctesting if required
         doctest_argv = '--with-doctest' in argv