[Python-3000] Support for PEP 3131 (original) (raw)

[Python-3000] Support for PEP 3131 - discussion on python zope users group

Jason Orendorff jason.orendorff at gmail.com
Wed May 16 18:44:50 CEST 2007

On 5/16/07, Collin Winter <collinw at gmail.com> wrote:

> -> unittest - very useful to give a better overview of the result of > unit test. People pointed us at a Visual C# MVP tutorial > http://www.atmarkit.co.jp/fdotnet/nagile/nagile02/nagile0203.html

I don't know what "a better overview of the result of unit test" means. Also, the linked page is in Japanese.

The page illustrates how a unit test can serve as an executable specification. The third box of code is a TestFixture class with methods like this one:

[Test][ExpectedException(typeof(ArgumentException))] public void 一年未満はエラーになる() { Date date = new Date(0, 1, 1); }

The name translates to something like "if the year is less than one, it's an error". Interesting. Kind of a weird thing to do; ordinarily you wouldn't want method names that take so long to type. But a unit test method is a special case.

The mix of Japanese and English is not as visually jarring as I expected. It actually looks kinda cool. :)

-j

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