[Python-Dev] unittest Suggestions (original) (raw)

Jean-Paul Calderone exarkun at divmod.com
Tue Aug 12 17:12:43 CEST 2008

On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:05:57 -0400, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

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On Aug 12, 2008, at 10:30 AM, Sebastian Rittau wrote: [I just saw the other post about unit testing, while I was writing this. A strange conincidence.] Indeed. I've played around (again) recently with both nose and py.test, so I'd like to make a meta comment. I would really like to see some of the people who are interested in Python unit testing to get together and work on an updated testing framework that incorporates the best ideas from all the existing frameworks. I'd like to see good integration with setuptools, both for running the tests and for packaging. I'd like to see good doctest support, with the ability to hook in setups and teardowns. I'd like to see some of useful things like layers taken from zope.testing. This doesn't belong on python-dev, and probably not on python-ideas either, but I'd be willing to start a testing SIG on python.org if others are interested in getting together for this purpose. The goal should be to produce something like a unittest-ng, distribute it via the Cheeseshop, and gather consensus around it for possible inclusion in Python 2.7/3.1.

A SIG might be a good idea. There's also already the "testing in python" list, too:

http://lists.idyll.org/listinfo/testing-in-python

A lot of this discussion would be appropriate there.

Jean-Paul

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