[TIP] nose/py.test plugins (was Re: Coverage.py 3.2b1: Branch coverage])

ssteinerX@gmail.com 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can't be tested and can fall out-of-date easily and with no  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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