[TIP] [ANN] simppu.py -- Simply Python Unit Testing

[Alfredo Deza]

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 9:47 PM, Pekka Klärck <peke at iki.fi> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> After using unittest for several years I've started to get slightly
> bored with it. There are several annoyances, but my pet peeves are the
> need to write boring boilerplate, the lack of test discovery, and the
> PEP-8 incompatible. Because it seems unittest2 isn't going to fix too
> many of these problems, and my actual needs for a unit testing tool
> are fairly simple, I decided to see could I write a tool that actually
> works the way I want.
>
> After few hours hacking, and 132 lines of Python, I have a pretty
> promising prototype that:
> - requires zero boilerplate (any function or method starting with
> 'test_' in a file starting with 'test_' is a test),
>

This will effectively break (or will not work) with (after browsing your
source code):

Test_
TEST_

Or any other combination of upper + lower case in test.

Your test discovery should be able to resolve case insensitive naming... I
think.



> - can find tests recursively from a directory,
> - is naturally PEP-8 compatible, and
> - can execute also old unittest based tests.
>
> The code and some example tests are available at
> http://bitbucket.org/pekkaklarck/simppu/. Comments, questions, forks,
> patches, etc. are highly appreciated!
>
> Cheers,
>    .peke
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Alfredo Deza
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