Here is a rough draft proposal for declaring tests in eggs: Introduction ============ Software packages should have automated tests. Consumers of packages will often want to run these tests. Tools should be able to do this automatically. This proposal seeks to provide a way for automated tools to discover tests in distributions, including eggs, so that tests can be run or so that test runners can be automatically created to run the tests. Proposal ======== This proposal aims to be extremely simple. It has 2 parts: 1. A 'test_suite' entry point is defined. An egg can provide zero or more test_suite entry points. These entry points will define callable objects that can be called without arguments and that return unittest test suites. 2. An optional 'tests' extra is defined. When creating test runners or dynamically loading distributions to load tests, any distributions listed in extra requires for the 'tests' extra shall be included in the working set for the test runner. Thoughts? Jim -- Jim Fulton mailto:jim@zope.com Python Powered! CTO (540) 361-1714 http://www.python.org Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com http://www.zope.org