Announcing "Trial". In the spirit of "We Invented NIH", Twisted Matrix Labs bring you a replacement for your favourite unit test framework. So what's my excuse? Twisted has already forked pyunit, so in a sense this is nothing new. However, changes made to that forked code-base aren't really that useful to any of our users. To get any of our added value, they'd have to use their own fork of pyunit. Re-writing it gets rid of any nasty copyright issues. Asynchronous unit tests are a challenge. The DeferredTestCase stuff in pyunit.unittest is a start, but not enough. Hopefully, trial will make it easier. The tight coupling of runtests and test_all is kind of ugly. This is no longer necessary in trial. $ ./admin/runtests -t is equivalent to $ ./bin/trial -p twisted.test Oh, I should mention that this wasn't my idea. It's all glyph's fault. He made me do it. cheers, jml