Feature: Use nose2 instead of nose. (Redmine issue: #7587)

.gitignore

@@ -48,6 +48,9 @@ pip-delete-this-directory.txt
 # Ignore compiled translations catalogs.
 messages.mo
 
+# Ignore test results.
+nose2-junit.xml
+
 # Ignore precompiled files for PLY.
 parser.out
 parsetab.py

Makefile

@@ -606,7 +606,7 @@ pylint: FORCE
 test: FORCE
 	@echo "\n$(GREEN)*** Checking code with nosetests ***$(NC)\n"
 	@echo "Python version: `$(PYTHON) --version`"
-	APP_ROOT_PATH=$(shell realpath ./chroot) PYTHONPATH=$(DIR_LIB) $(NOSETESTS)
+	APP_ROOT_PATH=$(shell realpath ./chroot) PYTHONPATH=$(DIR_LIB) $(PYTHON) -W always::DeprecationWarning -m nose2
 
 coverage: FORCE
 	@echo "\n$(GREEN)*** Checking test code coverage with nosetests and coverage ***$(NC)\n"

conf/requirements-dev.pip

 setuptools==46.1.3
 wheel==0.34.2
-nose==1.3.7
+nose2==0.11.0
 coverage==5.0.4
 pyflakes==2.1.1
 pylint==2.4.4

conf/requirements-latest-dev.pip

 setuptools
 wheel
-nose
+nose2
 coverage
 pyflakes
 pylint

nose2.cfg

+[unittest]
+plugins = nose2.plugins.junitxml