[TIP] Green and Red bars

[Michael Foord]

  On 21/10/2010 15:46, Olemis Lang wrote:
> 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 ?
>
You'd need to *tell it* to use the unittest2 runner at least. ;-)

Plus it won't know anything about skips or expected failures. That may 
not be an issue though. Changing it to import from unittest2 rather than 
unittest would *probably* be enough. unittest itself (on which unittest2 
is built) has changed a great deal since that code was written though...

Michael

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