Re: Test fixture concepts
Martijn Faassen <[email protected]>
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On 03/27/2011 05:13 PM, Martin Aspeli wrote: > On 27 March 2011 15:54, Uli Fouquet<[email protected]> wrote: > >> The (limited) experiences with py.test, however, were awesome. Some >> points that are quite cool IMHO: >> >> - Easy finding of tests: just write some ``test_function`` in a >> ``test_module`` and it will be found and executed. That also makes >> py.test tests more readable and maybe more intuitive. > > I'm not sure this is always a good idea. It feels a bit implicit, and > having a base class isn't really a big problem, IMHO. It seems a bit > like the kind of thing that sounds cool (look, it's even easier!), but > in practice makes little difference. Belatedly adding my few cents here: in practice I quite enjoy not having to copy ugly boilerplate from test modules that I always always forget. It's actually nice to just write a test_* function and have the test runner just work. So it's cool for some people, namely me. Regards, Martijn _______________________________________________ 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 )