[Python-Dev] unittest Suggestions

[C. Titus Brown]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 11:05:57AM -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote:
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-> On Aug 12, 2008, at 10:30 AM, Sebastian Rittau wrote:
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-> >[I just saw the other post about unit testing, while I was writing  
-> >this.
-> >A strange conincidence.]
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-> Indeed.  I've played around (again) recently with both nose and  
-> py.test, so I'd like to make a meta comment.
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-> 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.

Hi, Barry,

I'll forward this idea on to testing-in-python:

	http://lists.idyll.org/listinfo/testing-in-python

where there was another bikeshed discussion about testing, a few weeks
ago.  That might be a good place to continue this discussion, at least
until/if unittest-ng is created.

Sebastian, there was a looooong discussion on Python-Dev two or three
weeks ago (you can't miss it in the July archives, I'd bet).  You should
read that IMO.

cheers,
--titus
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C. Titus Brown, ctb at msu.edu