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Author	michael.foord
Recipients	gregory.p.smith, michael.foord
Date	2009-04-03.20:16:32
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Message-id	1238789794.27.0.0904779058735.issue5679@psf.upfronthosting.co.za
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This is a nice (simple to use and understand) pattern for resource allocation / deallocation. Supporting the cleaning up of resources when setUp fails (without duplicating clean up code) is just one use case. (I agree setUp failure is unusual.) It provides a clean way to clean up just the resources you have allocated in the event of test failure, without having to keep track yourself of how far the test has got. Manually tracking resource usage is easy to get wrong. bzr: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~jml/testtools/trunk/annotate/head%3A/testtools/testcase.py And from zope.testing: The documentation: http://svn.zope.org/zope.testing/trunk/src/zope/testing/setupstack.txt?rev=92340&view=auto The module: http://svn.zope.org/zope.testing/trunk/src/zope/testing/setupstack.py?rev=92340&view=auto

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This is a nice (simple to use and understand) pattern for resource allocation / deallocation. Supporting the cleaning up of resources when setUp fails (without duplicating clean up code) is just one use case. (I agree setUp failure is unusual.) It provides a clean way to clean up just the resources you have allocated in the event of test failure, without having to keep track yourself of how far the test has got. Manually tracking resource usage is easy to get wrong. bzr: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~jml/testtools/trunk/annotate/head%3A/testtools/testcase.py And from zope.testing: The documentation: http://svn.zope.org/zope.testing/trunk/src/zope/testing/setupstack.txt?rev=92340&view=auto The module: http://svn.zope.org/zope.testing/trunk/src/zope/testing/setupstack.py?rev=92340&view=auto

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Date	User	Action	Args
2009-04-03 20:16:34	michael.foord	set	recipients: + michael.foord, gregory.p.smith
2009-04-03 20:16:34	michael.foord	set	messageid: 1238789794.27.0.0904779058735.issue5679@psf.upfronthosting.co.za
2009-04-03 20:16:33	michael.foord	link	issue5679 messages
2009-04-03 20:16:32	michael.foord	create