Re: Metatest 0.1.0

2007-09-19 Thread Jonathan Fine
Kay Schluehr wrote: > On 19 Sep., 01:30, Jonathan Fine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>>there is no fundamental reason why it can't be separated from >>>eeconsole.py. >> >>OK. That might be a good idea. > > > Ironically, I liked the idea of having more expressive assert > statements - a discu

Re: Metatest 0.1.0

2007-09-19 Thread Kay Schluehr
On 19 Sep., 01:30, Jonathan Fine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > there is no fundamental reason why it can't be separated from > > eeconsole.py. > > OK. That might be a good idea. Ironically, I liked the idea of having more expressive assert statements - a discussion you brought up. But this requ

Re: Metatest 0.1.0

2007-09-19 Thread Kay Schluehr
On 19 Sep., 01:30, Jonathan Fine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > there is no fundamental reason why it can't be separated from > > eeconsole.py. > > OK. That might be a good idea. Ironically, I liked the idea of having more expressive assert statements - a discussion you brought up. But this requ

Re: [ANN] Metatest 0.1.0

2007-09-18 Thread Jonathan Fine
Ben Finney wrote: > [Jonathan, please don't send me copies of messages sent to the > discussion thread. I follow comp.lang.python via a non-mail interface, > and it's irritating to get unwanted copies of messages via email.] [Thank you for letting me know your preference. For myself, I often app

Re: [ANN] Metatest 0.1.0

2007-09-18 Thread Ben Finney
[Jonathan, please don't send me copies of messages sent to the discussion thread. I follow comp.lang.python via a non-mail interface, and it's irritating to get unwanted copies of messages via email.] Jonathan Fine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ben Finney wrote: > > Jonathan Fine <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [ANN] Metatest 0.1.0

2007-09-18 Thread Jonathan Fine
Ben Finney wrote: > Jonathan Fine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>Here's how to write some tests using Metatest. We can think of the >>tests as an executable specification. >> >>from metatest.py.mymod import plus, Point >> >># Function plus adds two numbers. >>plus(2, 2) == 4 >>plu

Re: Metatest 0.1.0

2007-09-18 Thread Jonathan Fine
Kay Schluehr wrote: >>Sounds interesting. Is this code, or examples of its use, available? > > > Sure, it's part of EasyExtend. See also www.fiber-space.de OK. So the ULR for the documentation of consoletest is: http://www.fiber-space.de/EasyExtend/doc/consoletest/consoletest.html It has a r

Re: [ANN] Metatest 0.1.0

2007-09-18 Thread Ben Finney
Jonathan Fine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Here's how to write some tests using Metatest. We can think of the > tests as an executable specification. > > from metatest.py.mymod import plus, Point > > # Function plus adds two numbers. > plus(2, 2) == 4 > plus(2, '', _ex=TypeError

Re: Metatest 0.1.0

2007-09-18 Thread Kay Schluehr
On Sep 18, 7:11 pm, Jonathan Fine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jonathan Fine schrieb: > Kay Schluehr wrote: > >>> http://metatest.sourceforge.net/doc/pyconuk2007/metatest.html > >>> From the HTML slides: >> >>Assertion tests are easy to write but report and run poorly. >> >> I tend to think t

Re: Metatest 0.1.0

2007-09-18 Thread Jonathan Fine
Kay Schluehr wrote: >> http://metatest.sourceforge.net/doc/pyconuk2007/metatest.html >From the HTML slides: > >Assertion tests are easy to write but report and run poorly. > > I tend to think this is a prejudice that leads to ever more ways to > write tests perform test discoveries, inv

Re: Metatest 0.1.0

2007-09-18 Thread Kay Schluehr
On Sep 18, 3:55 pm, Jonathan Fine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > This announcement also appears on the Metatest web > sitehttp://metatest.sourceforge.net > > === > *** Metatest - a Python test framework > > Metatest is a simple and elegant Python framework for writing tests. > > Metatest i

[ANN] Metatest 0.1.0

2007-09-18 Thread Jonathan Fine
Hello This announcement also appears on the Metatest web site http://metatest.sourceforge.net === *** Metatest - a Python test framework Metatest is a simple and elegant Python framework for writing tests. Metatest is mostly about writing tests and by design is not tied to any particular test