[TIP] Test discovery for unittest

[Marius Gedminas]

On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 06:04:42PM +0100, Michael Foord wrote:
> Marius Gedminas wrote:
> > I don't think I can give this discussion the full attention it deserves,
> > but I'll at least outline the conventions that the Zope 3 world uses for
> > tests:
> >
<snip>
> >
> > Is this compatible with what you're discussing?  I'm kind of wondering
> > about the talk about controlling recursion.
> >   
> 
> It sounds *similar*, except:
> 
> - Test modules can be discovered from the file system by a loader / 
> custom suite
> - Tests are loaded in the normal unittest way - by finding all TestCase 
> subclasses in each module found

Zope 3 has some abstract base classes that subclass unittest.TestCase.
I believe that's the reason for listing the ones you want explicitly
instead of using unittest's autodiscovery.

> - Individual modules can optionally define 'load_tests' in which case 
> that is called to get the suite from the module

And the presence of load_tests inhibits the automatic discovery of
TestCase subclasses?

> - If a package (in the __init__.py) defines 'load_tests' then that is 
> used to load the suite for the whole package and discovery does not 
> continue into the package directory (this is the 'controlling recursion' 
> business
> 
> I disagree that failing to load modules should not be a fatal error by 
> default. If a test system wants that behavior it can implement it itself 
> in load_tests.

Your views are interesting ;)

Marius Gedminas
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