[TIP] Test reporting in unittest (and plugins)

[Michael Foord]

On 03/08/2010 00:14, Robert Collins wrote:
> Michael,
>      I'd *really* love it if you grabbed testtools, read up on the
> TestCase.addDetail API and looked at the modified contract for
> addSuccess/addError/addFailure/addSkip etc which is backwards
> compatible, provides a rich medium for additional data - and we're
> having *great* success with additional things building on this
> foundation to include additional data automatically.
>
> As for test naming - I used TestCase.id() *everywhere* in the UI now,
> the description interface is terrible as a machine managable
> interface, and most of the automated workflows being built on test
> frameworks want machine processing of data - see for instance
> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/testrepository or
> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/junitxml.
>
> I haven't read your plugin proposal yet, sorry - new role @ work has
> me a tad swamped.
>    

I appreciate you're busy Rob, it's a common disease (I have a bad dose 
of it myself at the moment). It would be great if you could participate 
and provide some real use cases for, for example, custom outcomes. I 
have some real use cases from Jason Pellerin and also the real needs I 
described around test reporting.

I can *look* at the projects you describe, and *hopefully* the 
documentation will tell me what I need to know. I won't have time to go 
spelunking too deeply into the source code to work out what they are 
doing though. :-( Hopefully that won't be necessary.

We'll also have to have a(nother) discussion around paramerized tests 
sometime...

All the best,

Michael

> -Rob
>    


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