[TIP] ANN: dutest 0.2.3 released ! WAS: New! Writing doctests for Trac plugins

[Olemis Lang]

On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Olemis Lang <olemis at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:51 AM, Chris Heller
> <chris.heller.greysparling at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> There are numerous plugins on trac-hacks that have unittest based
>> tests.
>
> Thanks all for your suggestions and comments.
>
> I have been preparing the next release (coming soon ;o) of TracGviz
> 1.4.1 and I've been (finally) able to publish the repos [1]_
> containing most of the work been done so far. In there (`providers`
> branch) you can find the doctests I've written to test Trac RPC
> handlers. All this has been implemented on top of `dutest` module and
> is the first instance (that I know ... CMIIW) of both a dutest-based
> framework for particular purposes thus hiding details about
> initialization and cleanup , and a framework to write doctests for
> Trac plugins.
>

I have released recently the version of dutest (0.2.3) employed to
implement the ultra-mini-framework to use doctests with Trac plugins.
It is available now and contains some bug fixes I should have
published since long time ago ... Below you can find the new features
included.

Enjoy ! Feedback is welcome !

What's new in version 0.2.3:
----------------------------

- Implemented ``Suite Fixture Setup`` test pattern (i.e. set up a fixture
  once before all its interactive examples are run and clean up after
  they all have been run. (Especially useful for the Trac ultra-mini-framework
  in order to use a single global Trac environment for testing ;o)

- Module is hidden in tracebacks written to instances of `TestResult`
  when a failure or an error is detected.

- Support for multiple pattern matching styles has been added in
  **PackageTestLoader** trough ``style`` parameter. By default standard
  regular expressions (i.e. ``style=REGEX``) are used.

- Unix filename pattern matching (``fnmatch`` module) is available from
  now on while using **PackageTestLoader**. The only thing needed is
  to specify ``style=UNIX``.

- Multiple functions in previous versions contained arguments having
  mutable objects as default values. A
  `message about default args sent to TiP list`_ explains why this is
  really harmful. This has been fixed. Thanks to
  Scott David Daniels `for reporting the issue with default args`_
  and Jesse Noller for `the pointers about default args`_ .

.. _message about default args sent to TiP list:
http://lists.idyll.org/pipermail/testing-in-python/2009-April/001617.html

.. _for reporting the issue with default args:
http://lists.idyll.org/pipermail/testing-in-python/2009-April/001606.html

.. _the pointers about default args:
http://lists.idyll.org/pipermail/testing-in-python/2009-April/001620.html

-- 
Regards,

Olemis.

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