There is some incompatibility in the testing infrastructure with the combination specsim/master + astropy/2.0.9 + pytest/5.0.1, with many errors of the form listed below. Downgrading to pytest/3.6.2 works. i.e. the problem is with the testing infrastructure / configuration, not with the specsim code itself.
I see that there are several astropy-infrastructure pull requests open on specsim; it is possible that merging those would already fix this.
There is some incompatibility in the testing infrastructure with the combination specsim/master + astropy/2.0.9 + pytest/5.0.1, with many errors of the form listed below. Downgrading to pytest/3.6.2 works. i.e. the problem is with the testing infrastructure / configuration, not with the specsim code itself.
I see that there are several astropy-infrastructure pull requests open on specsim; it is possible that merging those would already fix this.