[TIP] Naming Conventions for testing

[Michael Foord]

On 25/07/2011 13:27, Alfredo Deza wrote:
> I think I've always been in happy land when it comes to naming and 
> other conventions for testing.
>
> Like prefacing your test files with "test" and placing them in a 
> "test[s]" directory. There are slight
> differences to that, like adding the test[s] module inside the actual 
> package or not, which is still a rather
> acceptable difference.
>
> And I am completely OK with those slight differences.
>
> I am currently faced with a Django application that has tests in a 
> `tests.py` file or a `tests` module that
> imports every test class that needs to be tested in `__init__.py`. I 
> tried looking for test discovery and
> auto-discovery in the Django docs but came empty handed [0]
>

Now that django 1.3 includes unittest2 it *should* be possible to have 
test discovery. I haven't looked into it though.

> The reasoning for the above test structure is because Django's test 
> runner will look for a tests module and
> will run tests found there. If it is a directory, then only tests that 
> are imported in `__init__.py` will be run.
>
> Again, no docs that I could find to support that (maybe this is a 
> *custom* thing in this app?)
>
> My issue with this, is that it lends to have test files that are named 
> `feature_foo.py` and not `test_foo.py`.
> Which it ends up breaking everything I've been used to until this moment.
>

We still name our tests "test_foo.py". I would consider it odd to not do 
this.


> py.test, nose and I *think* that unittest2 have the same convention 
> for autodiscovery.
>
Yep (for unittest2).

Michael

> I am not complaining though, but my questions are:
>
> * Am I wrong to have assumed we had a testing convention?
> * Is it just Django that does something like this? Or where are the 
> docs that state otherwise?
>
> Feedback/input is greatly appreciated!
>
>
> -Alfredo
>
>
>
> [0] https://docs.djangoproject.com/search/?q=test+discovery&release=5 
> <https://docs.djangoproject.com/search/?q=test+discovery&release=5>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> testing-in-python mailing list
> testing-in-python at lists.idyll.org
> http://lists.idyll.org/listinfo/testing-in-python


-- 
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/

May you do good and not evil
May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others
May you share freely, never taking more than you give.
-- the sqlite blessing http://www.sqlite.org/different.html

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.idyll.org/pipermail/testing-in-python/attachments/20110725/21c430cb/attachment.htm>