Re: zope.testbrowser and WebTest (round 2)
Wichert Akkerman <[email protected]>
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On 2011-1-31 07:02, Wolfgang Schnerring wrote: > * Brian Sutherland<[email protected]> [2011-01-30 16:04]: >> I've finally finished refactoring my WebTest/testbrowser branches, >> basically doing this: >> >> - Integrate with WebTest. zope.testbrowser.webtest.Browser is a new >> Browser implementation that uses webtest.TestApp to drive a WSGI >> application. This allows simple and direct testing of WSGI applications. >> >> - Re-write the test application as a pure WSGI application using WebOb. >> Run the existing tests using the WebTest based Browser >> >> - Move zope.app.testing based Browser into zope.app.testing (leaving >> backwards compatibility imports in-place). >> >> This is a very big change, so I would appreciate anyone who would take a >> look at these branches before I merge: > > Michael Howitz and I recently polished the integration of > zope.testbrowser and wsgi_intercept to accomplish pretty much the same > things you mentioned. (I'm aware that you two exchanged some emails > about it, but don't know any details). > > So I'm curious: What are the differences bewteen WebTest and > wsgi_intercept? Is one preferable to the other? If I remember correctly WebTest wraps the WSGI app object directly and does not require monkeypatching urllib. To send requests to the app under testing you call WebTest post/get methods, which directly call the WSGI app. Wichert. -- Wichert Akkerman <[email protected]> It is simple to make things. http://www.wiggy.net/ It is hard to make things simple. _______________________________________________ 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 )