[Python-Dev] light-weight testing

[Ben Finney]

Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> writes:

> For what it's worth, I've been using nose for quite a long time and
> the first reason I did so is, like you, because I wanted to write
> tests in a light way (without having to declare classes).
> 
> Then after writing some dozens of tests I switched back to wrapping
> tests in classes, just because it makes tests more readable and
> better organized (especially when you come to have setup/teardown
> functions shared by several tests).
> 
> (but nose is still very nice)

It's also entirely compatible with wrapping one's tests in classes.
The test discovery and collection in 'nose' is one of the attractions:
it discovers them at package, module, class, and plain-function level,
whether doctest or not, whether unittest or not, and collects them all
to run.

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Ben Finney