avocado-framework/avocado — pull request #25 by lmr (2014-04-23 00:53:10+00:00)
Title: Experiment - make avocado base Test() class inherit from unittest.TestCase()

This is the beginning of an experiment to make the avocado base Test() class to be derived from unittest.TestCase(). The idea is to have avocado tests to have compatibility with frameworks such as nose

https://github.com/nose-devs/nose/

So, interoperability is a laudable goal and we should think about it seriously.