<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 8:32 AM, Michael Foord <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fuzzyman@voidspace.org.uk">fuzzyman@voidspace.org.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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On 06/04/2010 13:22, Alfredo Deza wrote:
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<div>I am trying to test as much as I can in a small project of mine.
However, the project has some network usage: pushes files from one spot
to another with Mercurial via SSH.</div>
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<div>For now, I am creating a testing environment where I have some
SSH keys enabled and I am able to test this specific functionality.</div>
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<div>However, I also have specific tests for all the
methods/functions involved. I had a user complain about the network
tests breaking (which is expected if he doesn't have a proper setup)
but I find it very</div>
<div>useful to have not only tests for methods/functions but also for
the final output: did the file actually made it?</div>
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<div>Is this approach OK? </div>
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<div>I have had situations where a test for a specific method didn't
picked up an error but the 'test_final_ouput.py' did (which made me
correct the tests).</div>
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<div>Maybe I should not include them when distributing my project? Or
would documentation explaining how to set everything up so tests can
run correctly would be enough?</div>
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Having functional tests (end-to-end, integration tests, whatever you
want to call them) is a good thing - however ideally they should
*still* not rely on external resources. Really your test infrastructure
should setup the server your tests connect to locally. </div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>So something like mocking SSH? So it doesn't break if it is not correctly implemented? </div><div>The tests right this moment *are* local, but still use SSH to move the files from one spot to the other (e.g. 'ssh foo@localhost')</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff">If these tests
have dependencies then you should document these.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Always! </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff">
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My 0.02c.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I was going to ask how much I owed you... </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff">
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Michael Foord<br>
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Alfredo Deza<br>
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