Why the need for the codewars testing framework?

[FranzMartyn]

Codewars offers 2 testing frameworks for Python:

• unittest
• codewars_test

What's the need for creating a seperate testing framework? Does unittest not offer some features that would be a lot more helpful for creating and translating katas? Do kata creators and translators prefer using a JUnit-like testing framework? Or is there something else?

[hobovsky]

Slightly related: codewars/runner#50. Note that unittest is available in kumite, but not in kata.

[FranzMartyn]

@kazk points out here that there can be only one testing framework per language due to the database. Is the issue still there?

[hobovsky]

AFAIK yes.