[IPython-dev] IPy notebook as simple test system?

[Aaron Meurer]

Here's the relevant issue:
https://github.com/ipython/ipython/issues/1195. I would love to see
something like this integrated into IPython.

Aaron Meurer

On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 3:42 PM, MinRK <benjaminrk at gmail.com> wrote:
> I wrote a toy script a while ago, to show that this kind of thing is
> feasible:
>
> https://gist.github.com/minrk/2620735
>
> -MinRK
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Martín Gaitán <gaitan at phasety.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi everybody
>>
>> I need to add some tests to fortran-magic [1] and I realized that,
>> basically, I should test each example in the documentation which is already
>> done as a notebook[2] .
>>
>> So, I got this idea: make a a way to run the code cells of a notebook and
>> compare the calculated output against the stored output in the notebook.
>>
>> Looking for something like this I found [3] and [4], which facilitate the
>> use of doctests, but it's not exactly the same. Conceptually, this are also
>> doctests, but the main difference with what I imagine is that we don't
>> bother writing fake code inside the actual code: No docstrings at all, just
>> use the cells we already have.
>>
>> Of course the comparison should be flexible. Doctest has directives to
>> allow ellipsis or normalizations, for example [5]. I think this could be
>> simplified with an UI to select the portions of the output that must be
>> compared and store this selection as cell metadata.
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/mgaitan/fortran_magic
>> [2]
>> http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/mgaitan/fortran_magic/blob/master/documentation.ipynb
>> [3]
>> http://catherinedevlin.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/im-increasingly-amazed-at-ipython.html
>> [4] https://github.com/tkf/ipython-doctestmagic
>> [5] http://docs.python.org/2/library/doctest.html#directives
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