[TIP] Test discovery for unittest

Michael Foord fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk
Sat Apr 4 16:11:49 PDT 2009


Michael Foord wrote:
> Robert Collins wrote:
>   
>> On Sat, 2009-04-04 at 04:02 +0100, Michael Foord wrote:
>>
>>   
>>     
>>> Thanks - I should look at using a test loader rather than importing the 
>>> modules and pulling out the test cases myself.
>>>     
>>>       
>> Done, attached.
>>
>> -Rob
>>   
>>     
> Ha - good timing. I'd *just* committed a change to use the test loader - 
> basically using the same technique as you without the DiscoveringTestSuite.
>
> http://code.google.com/p/unittest-ext/source/browse/trunk/discovery.py
>
> Would be interested in which approach people prefer and what else should 
> be done before putting into unittest (integrating with unittest -m 
> command line args is the most important thing IMO).
>
> Michael
>
>   
Having a DiscoveringTestSuite would allow people to use it with a custom 
test runner. I like it.

Michael

-- 
http://www.ironpythoninaction.com/
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/blog





More information about the testing-in-python mailing list