I don't think test_seqdb() is not useful even if it is executed after other
megatest finished. We can check whether registering seqdb is complete and
intact, but I think it does not actually matter when we do that.
Namshin Kim


On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Marek Szuba <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Hello everyone,
>
> After some trial and error yesterday, mostly related to trying to fix
> too many things at the same time (mental note - don't!), I've completed
> a minimal-effort rewrite of old megatests for the new test framework.
> See the 'megatests' branch of my GitHub repository:
>
>
> http://github.com/mkszuba/pygr/commit/41c325463ebb004c60450b7103febba13778bcb7
>
> (the files are in tests/)
>
> Some comments:
>
>  - like I said above, this has been a minimal-effort rewrite. All
> tasks such as reducing code redundancy (the tests appear to share a
> lot of common code), using worldbase instead of pygr.Data, improving
> PEP-8 compliance and so on have been skipped on purpose;
>
>  - changing the framework has made megatests rather noisy. I'll try to
> quieten them a bit soon;
>
>  - I was worried whether the __init__() -> setUp() transition could
> mess up creation of temporary directories, possibly destroying
> separation between tests. I've had a look at the output of
> annotation_dm2_megatests and it seems each test still uses its own
> temporary directory, i.e. nothing's broken - still, it would be great
> if someone double-checked this;
>
>  - it seems that in its present form, the method test_seqdb() present in
> most megatests (the purpose of which has been to check whether the
> necessary sequence data is present in the system) isn't particularly
> useful - it always ends up being run as the last, i.e. after all tests
> which actually rely on this data to be present have already been run.
> What do you think we should do with it?
>
> As always, all questions or comments are welcome.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> MS
>
> >
>

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