[TIP] unittest & TDD

[Atul Varma]

On 3/4/07, Bob Ippolito <bob at redivi.com> wrote:
> I agree that unittest is straightforward, but it's annoying (on its
> own). Too much unnecessary cruft.

I agree.  Out of curiosity, is there any movement towards making
py.test or nose a part of Python's standard library?  The main reason
my company used unittest is, quite honestly, because we didn't look at
any other testing options when we started writing our unit tests,
assuming that the testing framework that shipped with Python was just
"the one way to do it" (a la Python's motto).  We weren't huge fans of
its complexity (or rather, the boilerplate cruft caused by said
complexity), but we dealt with it.  The fact that unittest was pretty
well documented helped a lot, too, but as soon as I saw py.test I had
wished I'd known about it before I started writing unit tests.

- Atul