[Python-checkins] buildbot warnings in hppa Ubuntu dapper trunk
Fredrik Lundh
fredrik at pythonware.com
Fri Jun 9 10:17:35 CEST 2006
Tim Peters wrote:
> After the conversion to unittest, there was no final cleanup block,
> and it just so happened that "testUnicodeOpen" has the alphabetically
> largest test name, so unittest runs it last, and testUnicodeOpen() was
> one of the lazy tests that didn't clean up after itself.
shouldn't tests be designed so that they can be run even if a previous
run failed to clean up after itself ?
I generally design tests using this structure:
cleanup() # establish preconditions
test()
if test successful:
cleanup() # don't litter
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