Phillip J. Eby wrote:
At 10:32 AM 8/8/2008 -0500, Chris Galvan wrote:
Phillip J. Eby wrote:
Hello all. I had some spare time the other day and went through the
tracker, reclassifying a few things and marking some with a
"needpatch" keyword. The ones marked "needpatch" vary from things I
have no idea what to do with, to ones where I've practically spelled
out the needed patch in the tracker.
Issues with patches that passed my initial review have been marked
"in-progress"; these could use some testing before check-in. At this
point, I haven't had an opportunity to review the results of the test
sprint that was done; if somebody could throw that up as a patch on
the tracker, or at least repost a link to where I can find that
stuff, that would help.
The work done on the test sprint is hosted in this bzr branch. We
wanted to get your feedback on what had been done so far to make sure
we were heading in the right direction.
https://code.launchpad.net/~setuptools/setuptools-test/main
My initial reaction is that it's off to a good start, but the tests
themselves seem rather shallow; more like "smoke tests" (i.e., turn it
on and see if smoke comes out) than functional tests.
I'm thinking it might help to use the setuptools.sandbox facility to log
files created, deleted, modified, etc. by the process. That would
probably be a better test of what has/hasn't been done than using
ellipses on the logs, which is order-dependent as well as having the
ability to skip lines where the wrong thing is being done, etc. The way
things are being done now, they probably won't be able to test some of
the things that are most likely to break (i.e., the complexities of
easy_install).
(Probably in order to do that I'll need to add a new sandboxing class
that creates a "mock" filesystem and allows before/after expectations to
be set.)
You could also use ScriptTest: http://pythonpaste.org/scripttest/ -- it
doesn't make any attempt to mock anything out, but it does keep track of
what a command does. For testing PoachEggs
(https://svn.openplans.org/svn/PoachEggs/trunk/poacheggs-tests) I'm
creating a scratch virtualenv for the test, then running things inside
there.
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