Re: Zope Tests: 42 OK, 3 Failed
Benji York <[email protected]>
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On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Tres Seaver <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Zope Tests Summarizer wrote: >> Summary of messages to the zope-tests list. >> Period Sun Jun 27 12:00:00 2010 UTC to Mon Jun 28 12:00:00 2010 UTC. >> There were 45 messages: 6 from Zope Tests, 11 from ccomb at free.fr, 1 from ct at gocept.com, 27 from jdriessen at thehealthagency.com. >> >> >> Test failures >> ------------- >> >> Subject: FAILED : Zope Buildbot / zope2.12 slave-osx >> From: jdriessen at thehealthagency.com >> Date: Sun Jun 27 13:01:37 EDT 2010 >> URL: http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope-tests/2010-June/015850.html > > The failing test here looks completely absurd: > > - ------------------------------- %< ----------------------------------- > Failure in test > /Users/buildslave/.buildout/eggs/zope.testbrowser-3.6.0a2-py2.6.egg/zope/testbrowser/README.txt > Failed doctest test for README.txt > File > "/Users/buildslave/.buildout/eggs/zope.testbrowser-3.6.0a2-py2.6.egg/zope/testbrowser/README.txt", > line 0 > > - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > File > "/Users/buildslave/.buildout/eggs/zope.testbrowser-3.6.0a2-py2.6.egg/zope/testbrowser/README.txt", > line 1248, in README.txt > Failed example: > browser.lastRequestPystones < 10000 # really big number for safety > Expected: > True > Got: > False > > - ------------------------------- %< ----------------------------------- > > What in the name of all that is holy is that supposed to be testing > (much lest documenting)? In other words: who wants to argue for not > ripping that useless (so I assert ;) assertion out? The above is attempting to document the fact that the lastRequestPystones exists and is a number. If I were to write the test today I'd use a mocking framework to fix the number returned so the example is more direct, but it seems sufficient as-is. -- Benji York _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [email protected] https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )