[TIP] unittest & TDD

[Titus Brown]

-> > In general, as much criticism as unittest has received for its 
-> > complexity, we've found it to be pretty useful for functional testing; 
-> > in fact, all of our tests--unit tests, functional tests, and manual 
-> > tests--use the unittest framework, which makes collecting the test 
-> > results easier for us.
-> >
-> Same here.
-> 
-> I've never understood the unittest complexity issue - it seems 
-> straightforward to me ?? Perhaps it is a documentation issue.

It's straightforward to people who "get" unit testing, I think ;).
I don't think it's particularly complex; I don't like it because
organizing hierarchies of tests is cumbersome.  I find "discovery"
frameworks like nose and py.test to be much nicer when organizing even
medium-level test suites.

Anyhoo, sort of OT, check out James Shore's latest chapter on TDD:

	http://www.jamesshore.com/Agile-Book/test_driven_development.html

Michael, I think it addresses some of the issues you brought up.

cheers!
--titus