[Python-Dev] built-in Python test runner (was: Python Language Summit at PyCon: Agenda)

Lennart Regebro regebro at gmail.com
Wed Mar 6 07:41:41 CET 2013


On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 8:13 AM, Robert Collins
<robertc at robertcollins.net> wrote:
> On 5 March 2013 20:02, Lennart Regebro <regebro at gmail.com> wrote:
>> What's needed here is not a tool that can run all unittests in
>> existence, but an official way for automated tools to run tests, with
>> the ability for any test and test framework to hook into that, so that
>> you can run any test suite automatically from an automated tool. The,
>> once that mechanism has been identified/implemented, we need to tell
>> everybody to do this.
>
> I think the command line is the right place to do that - declare as
> metadata the command line to run a packages tests.

Yeah, that's good and simple solution.

//Lennart


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