[Twisted-Python] On testing things wrapping other things
Hi, Recently I worked on refactoring a project so that it was, in my opinion, more testable. For reference, the diff is available at https://github.com/Weasyl/txyam/compare/Weasyl:9230b7d09c1413a09d776700f26a0..., and the important parts in the changed version are at https://github.com/Weasyl/txyam/blob/cdf7aef9e3425f27016f8e97c59bd2143fbf805.... My question: is this a good factoring for testing a wrapper? It seems to make sense to split apart crafting and issuing requests to clients, as it lets you test the contents of a request to see what will happen instead of having to issue the request and test that its effects happened. On a previous iteration of this project, I wrote tests that did exactly that: issued requests and checked the bytes that were sent to a StringTransport. Those tests ended up being harder to read and write, and seemed to rely on the exact implementation of the thing I was wrapping. Thanks in advance for any feedback on the matter, ~weykent
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