[TIP] Test discovery for unittest

Robert Collins robertc at robertcollins.net
Tue Apr 7 07:03:24 PDT 2009


On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 16:48 +0300, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> 
> There is a desire in the Zope 3 world to migrate away from our own
> test
> runner to something more standard (probably nose), but nobody has the
> time to work on that (and we have features---such as test layers with
> a single expensive setUp/tearDown function pair wrapping multiple
> tests, with the tests grouped into layers according to the 'layer'
> attribute of the individual testcases/suites coming from various
> locations in the tree---that AFAIK nose doesn't have).

You might like testresources; it was written for ~ the same use case as
layers, but it is unittest compatible. [stock unittest can run things
using testresources, and they work].

-Rob
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