[TIP] Python 2.2 - Testing Framework?

Carl Trachte ctrachte at gmail.com
Sun Apr 13 12:05:44 PDT 2008


Kumar,
I can't believe I missed that.  Thanks.
Carl T.

On 4/13/08, Kumar McMillan <kumar.mcmillan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Carl Trachte <ctrachte at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >  Is there a framework or testing methodology for Python 2.2?  Our mine
>  >  planning software vendor uses Python 2.2 as their API.  I would like
>  >  to start writing tests for the code I'm writing against it.
>  >
>  >  Do you recommend that I roll my own, or has someone already done this work?
>
>
> there is a module in Python 2.2's standard library called unittest and
>  its interface will look very familiar if you are used to xUnit (NUnit,
>  JUnit, etc).  Just "import unittest"
>
>  http://docs.python.org/lib/module-unittest.html
>
>  If you wanted some more help in dealing with a large suite of tests,
>  you could use the nose module,
>  http://somethingaboutorange.com/mrl/projects/nose/ .  Although that
>  requires at least Python 2.3 .
>



More information about the testing-in-python mailing list