[TIP] nose/py.test plugins (was Re: Coverage.py 3.2b1: Branch coverage])
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ssteinerx at gmail.com
Wed Nov 11 11:39:33 PST 2009
On Nov 11, 2009, at 2:16 PM, Michael Foord wrote:
> Victoria G. Laidler wrote:
>> holger krekel wrote:
>>> Hi Vicky, Ned, Jason,
>>> On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:51 -0500, Victoria G. Laidler wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Holger and Jason,
>>>>
>>>> Is there a write-up anywhere yet that has instructions for
>>>> plugin authors who want to make their plugins compatible with
>>>> both test systems?
>>>> Or maybe two simple-minded writeups, one to convert an existing
>>>> nose plugin to support py.test, and the other for vice-versa?
>>>>
>>>
>>> no write-ups i know off. My impression is that people like to work
>>> from real-life examples.
>> Uh, just for the record, I loathe working from examples instead of
>> from actual documentation. *My* impression is that people don't
>> like to write actual documentation! ;) and thus point people at
>> code instead.
I find working, tested code much better than documentation which often
can't be tested and can fall out-of-date easily and with no
verification.
Give me a working, tested example every time. Docs are great, but you
usually can't run docs in the debugger to see what's actually going on.
S
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