[soc2008-general] unit testing the standard library

[Titus Brown]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 11:10:32PM +0100, Christian Heimes wrote:
-> Brett Cannon schrieb:
->  > Possibly. We need:
-> > 
-> > * A function that imports the module being tested so that if it isn't
-> > imported the test is skipped, but all other import failures are an
-> > error.
-> > * Some way to specify what OSs the test can be run on, both expected
-> > and optionally.
-> > * A way to denote whitebox tests specific for CPython.
-> > * Rewrite regrtest to use all of this new stuff.
-> > 
-> > That's everything I ever had an idea for. Most of it, though, is not
-> > overly complex (maybe the regrtest rewrite since that file has grown
-> > organically).
-> 
-> I also like to see:
-> 
-> * a way to execute a single test easily, for example
-> 
-> $ python regrtest.py test_sys:SysModuleTest.test_original_displayhook
-> 
-> * A simple way to record all failing unit tests and re-test just the
-> failing test functions
-> 
-> $ python regrtest.py --record
-> $ python regrtest.py --replay
-> 
-> * a bullet proof and reliable infrastructure to set up socket based and
-> threaded tests
-> 
-> * infrastructure for common operations like creating and removing a file

oooh, nice suggestions!

--titus