On Sun, Feb 01, 2009, Christian Heimes wrote:
I'm +1 for a simple (!) test discovery system. I'm emphasizing on simple because there are enough frameworks for elaborate unit testing.
Such a tool should
- find all modules and packages named 'tests' for a given package name - load all subclasses of unittest.TestCase from 'tests' module or '*/tests/test*.py' files - support some basic filtering for test cases or test functions
Do we need more features?
Depends on whether the above features find doctests. In my previous job (got laid off a month ago), I'd say that about eighty percent of test suites were doctests (harder to guess the percentage by line counts), and many of these were substantial. I think that doctests are one of the killer Python features that make it easy to do testing, and I think it's critical that all core testing tools support them. -- Aahz (aahz@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ Weinberg's Second Law: If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.