testing units in a specific order?

[Carl Friedrich Bolz]

Hi Michele!

Michele Simionato wrote:
> This looks new. Can you comment on how utestconvert.py work and how
> reliable is it?

It is rather old, but was never advertised much. PyPy used it to convert 
all its unit tests from unittests to py.test, when py.test was finished. 
The idea is quite simple, the script does a stupid rewrite of the 
typical unittest-syntax to py.test syntax:

self.assertEqual(x, y) --> assert x == y
self.assert_(some_expression) --> assert some_expression

and so on. It works very well in "regular" unittest code that does not 
use any special unittests extensions. It might break for more 
complicated cases but (especially custom unittest extensions), as I 
said, it worked well with PyPy's unittests (which are quite many).

In general, I think that py.test will at one point grow a collector for 
doctest/unittest test cases. We plan to do that since quite some time 
now (it is even part an issue in our tracker) but we currently don't 
have the resources to actually do so. Contributions are of course 
welcome ;-)

Cheers,

Carl Friedrich Bolz