Re: Test fixture concepts
Wichert Akkerman <[email protected]>
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On 3/29/11 14:40 , Stephan Richter wrote: > On Tuesday, March 29, 2011, Jim Fulton wrote: >>> so I may forgo them. >> >> Which is a mistake. You should create separate tests. I typically put >> large tests, dealing with main use cases where there is a definite >> flow of activity in '.test' files. I do these in separate files >> because they're easier to write that way. I use a '.test' suffix to >> avoid the pretense that these are documentation. I put edge-case >> tests in small docstrings in testing modules. I'm not really >> religious about using doctests for this, but I find small edge-case >> doctests easier to read than traditional unit tests. It's possible >> that I'd like py.test tests as much. > > Yeah, Marius led me recently to that path too. Write a narrative in text files > and use doc strings of functions to do edge cases (or when you don't have time > for the narrative). I am getting used to it. I still much prefer the sort of > output comparison that doctests/manuel gives me over the assertion language > that unittest.TestCase requires. FWIW unittest2 has much nicer output if you use the new assert methods. Wichert. _______________________________________________ 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 )