[Python-Dev] unittest Suggestions

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Aug 12, 2008, at 10:30 AM, Sebastian Rittau wrote:

> [I just saw the other post about unit testing, while I was writing  
> this.
> A strange conincidence.]

Indeed.  I've played around (again) recently with both nose and  
py.test, so I'd like to make a meta comment.

I would really like to see some of the people who are interested in  
Python unit testing to get together and work on an updated testing  
framework that incorporates the best ideas from all the existing  
frameworks.  I'd like to see good integration with setuptools, both  
for running the tests and for packaging.  I'd like to see good doctest  
support, with the ability to hook in setups and teardowns.  I'd like  
to see some of useful things like layers taken from zope.testing.

This doesn't belong on python-dev, and probably not on python-ideas  
either, but I'd be willing to start a testing SIG on python.org if  
others are interested in getting together for this purpose.  The goal  
should be to produce something like a unittest-ng, distribute it via  
the Cheeseshop, and gather consensus around it for possible inclusion  
in Python 2.7/3.1.

- -Barry

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