[Tutor] testing framework

[Oxymoron]

Hello,

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 10:55 PM, spir <denis.spir at free.fr> wrote:

>
> My app is about parsing, which input and output usually both are big and
> complicated *strings*. So that I find the command line model really
> unappropriate for expressing test cases and their expected results.
>

Interesting - haven't really used Python's test frameworks here - and
perhaps my suggestion may be too basic - and if so I apologise - not sure
what you mean by command line model in the context. Could you not have a
directory with input files and expected output files, then write a test
runner going through input -> apply_operation -> assert(output) cycles? The
test runner can be as simple or as complicated as you want of course, so you
can configure tests say by pieces of parsing functionality, but they need
not deal with the tests' input themselves, which will mostly be
preconfigured (or partially dynamic with plugged in values) etc. Heck, you
could have configuration files for the test runner!

Have I completely missed your question?

-- K

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