On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Jean-Paul Calderone
This is good advice, and it largely agrees with what Aaron was proposing, I think. The core idea here is to only test the code you're trying to test, not a huge heap of other stuff. A lot of the HTTP client tests invoke a huge swath of Twisted Web code, and needlessly so. Finding some way to write new tests which only exercise the very limited set of code that the test is actually for is definitely the way to go.
Jean-Paul
With a separate function (for brevity I'll just call it r2ar for this email) there would only be a single request to check that r2ar is called at all. The rest of the test would involve calling r2ar a few times. As an added bonus, calls to r2ar are extremely cheap. timeit pegs them at in the order of 10 x -5 seconds on my laptop. -Aaron