<div dir="ltr"><meta charset="utf-8">Hey Yoni,<div><br></div><div>I don't know any main-stream plugin that does what you ask for, but I'd advise you to follow this issue in nose's site: <a href="http://code.google.com/p/python-nose/issues/detail?id=255" target="_blank">http://code.google.com/p/python-nose/issues/detail?id=255</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>It contains a patch that does what you want and more, and might be a bit alive (last post a few weeks ago).</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 18:20, Yoni Tsafir <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:yonix85@gmail.com">yonix85@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi there,</div><div>I like writing tests that use a lot of random values as input.</div><div><br></div><div>Something I found useful during my experience in other languages, is to have some kind of test runner that prints the initial random seed when a test fails, and lets you run your tests with the same random seed again so you can debug it and tell why the test failed with this particular seed.</div>
<div>This of course forces your tests to use a the singleton instance of random instead of instantiating new classes of "random.Random" (or maybe use another singleton random object).</div><div><br></div><div>Now, before I start writing this mechanism in python as well, I was wondering if there is anything already implemented in this area (maybe some kind of nose's hidden feature or something), or any other suggestions of ways to achieve what I'm seeking after.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks!</div><div>Yoni.</div></div>
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