[IPython-dev] Testing headaches
Prabhu Ramachandran
prabhu at aero.iitb.ac.in
Thu Apr 16 02:29:11 EDT 2009
On 04/16/09 03:45, Brian Granger wrote:
> Yes, this is the type of thing that I am actually starting to think about:
>
> * Have a top level test runner that looks at a subpackage (how?) to
> see its deps.
> * The top level test runner tests the deps.
> * If the deps are there, it runs the tests of the subpackage in a
> ***separate process***
> * Iterate though all IPython subpackages. Or we could make it interactive.
>
> This approach would better isolate the testing of different package.
> I think having things run in different processes is really important
> due to all the nasty stuff we are seeing.
Let me just add that I've been bitten enough by the
run-all-tests-in-one-go approach that all test runners take (nosetests
especially) that I "lost it" on one of the threads on enthought-dev and
ranted like crazy. It does help to be able to run each test file in a
separate process so different pieces don't stomp on each other. It also
mimics what we usually do when developing -- testing the particular test
file and once its done run the full suite. It makes it much easier to
isolate issues and not have to worry about unpredictable and
hard-to-debug side effects. Robert Kern pointed out that nosepipe lets
you run each test case in a separate process.
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/nosepipe/
This also opens up the possibility of doing parallel testing on multiple
cores.
cheers,
prabhu
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