[TIP] Green and Red bars

[Olemis Lang]

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 6:42 AM, Alexandre Fayolle
<alexandre.fayolle at logilab.fr> wrote:
> On Saturday 09 October 2010 22:37:10 Natalia Bidart wrote:
>> Hello List!
>>
>> First of all, I'll introduce myself: I'm Natalia, I live in Argentina
>> and I've been following the list since PyCon USA 2010. I must confess
>> that back then I loved Michael's and Ned's talks, and (mainly) because
>> of them I joined the list.
>>
>> The reason of my writing is that I'll be giving a talk about Testing
>> at PyCon Argentina 2010, which will take place next October 15th and
>> 16th, and I need some input from you all. I'm very fond to the concept
>> of "getting a green bar" (ergo also to the concept of "red bar"), but
>> I'm finding some problems on actually getting a *green* or *red* bar
>> using the unittest runner.
>>
[...]
>
> The original pyunit shipped with a tkinter gui (unittestgui) with the
> green/red bar. It has not made it to the standard library, but is still
> available in the python-unit package in Debian.
>
> See http://pyunit.sourceforge.net/ for sourcecode, screenshots, etc.
>
> Porting to unittest2 should not be too complicated.
>

What's the source of incompatibility ?

Is it that unittest2 test suites are different to legacy unittest's ?
Or is it about the test runner ?

-- 
Regards,

Olemis.

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