[TIP] nosetrim plugin

Grig Gheorghiu grig at gheorghiu.net
Thu Mar 1 21:33:00 PST 2007


--- Kumar McMillan <kumar.mcmillan at gmail.com> wrote:

> dear fellow test-hackers,
> 
> I had this idea for a nose plugin that suppresses duplicate errors of
> the same type, so that when you break something very low level and
> the
> same error propogates throughout your suite, you don't have to rerun
> your tests (with --stop) just to get at the root of the problem.  To
> and from work on the train the last few days I was able to whip this
> up:
> 
> http://code.google.com/p/nosetrim/
> 
> let me know what you think!  it's a pretty simple idea.

Great idea! And what's more, great name :-) Between pinocchio and
nosetrim, nobody can accuse the Python testing community of not being
imaginative.

This is a really useful plugin IMO.

Grig



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