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✅ YourBase Python Test Acceleration 6.0
We have shipped YourBase Python Test Acceleration 6.0! It comes with massive performance and quality-of-life improvements:

• 🚀  Faster—Line-aware acceleration, 9x reduction in tracing overhead, and improved graph selection algorithms
• 🌈  Backfilled coverage reports—For skipped tests, absent coverage data is cached in the dependency graph and reused so Coverage.py and pytest-cov reports have complete data
• 💡 Code insights API—Build tooling on top of YourBase’s internal understanding of your code. Using the new command-line option “yourbase get-affected-tests”, developers can observe and validate the tests that will be executed based on the code change.

YourBase is focused on a simple problem: When developers are waiting for testing feedback, they’re not getting work done. Sure, they could switch tasks–but in our experience, developers (including ourselves) are far less productive when solving the “idle hands” problem. It’s much better to focus on solving one problem at a time. No context switching and minimal friction.

Worse, teams around the world are wasting countless hours waiting on results from unnecessary manual and automated testing. We’re not saying that testing is unnecessary, but we see a lot of companies running multi-hour test suites on small commits. Do we really need to retest all 40,000 tests when we’re only changing 10 lines of code in one file?