Use latest dependencies for Testbed testing

[rmartin16]

Changes

• Recent versions of pytest-asyncio introduced a lot of breaking changes. Notably, a session-wide event loop can no longer be specified via the event_loop() fixture. However, an event loop policy can be specified via the event_loop_policy() fixture.
• As such, this introduces a simple event loop policy that defers to the existing event loop proxy
• Closes Testbed works in run, but hangs in test #2382
• Also, allows Dependabot to manage the testbed's dependencies

PR Checklist:

• All new features have been tested
• All new features have been documented
• I have read the CONTRIBUTING.md file
• I will abide by the code of conduct

[rmartin16]

So, these changes in pytest-asyncio have not been particularly well accepted by the community....but it seems the maintainer was between a rock and hard spot in trying to manage upstream deprecations in asyncio itself...although, there's also evidence of potentially less-than-ideal design choices.

At any rate, once I was able to wrap my head around how any of this even works, there is where I landed. Fortunately, Toga's use of pytest-asyncio here is relatively straightforward relative to other use-cases from which I was seeking inspiration.

A potentially notable aspect of this approach stems from the fact that pytest-asyncio defaults to isolating all tests to their own event loop; there are several strategies for expanding the scope of an event loop. My strategy here, though, allows pytest-asyncio to "create" a new event loop for each test....but, via this new policy, the same event loop is returned for each "new loop request".

My asyncio skills are what they are....so definitely open to better approaches.

Finally, in trying to understand the linux failures in CI (i.e #2648), I figured it was a good idea to get on the latest versions of everything first.

[freakboy3742]

My asyncio skills are what they are....so definitely open to better approaches.

... My good sir, you are massively underselling your skill set here :-)

[freakboy3742]

/me golf claps.

Nice work - both on the nice hack to get dependabot updating the testbed dependencies, and to get pytest-asyncio up to date.

One minor suggestion to limit the scope of a dependency; but otherwise this looks great.

[freakboy3742]

👍