On Tuesday, March 29, 2011, Jim Fulton wrote: > > so I may forgo them. > > Which is a mistake. You should create separate tests. I typically put > large tests, dealing with main use cases where there is a definite > flow of activity in '.test' files. I do these in separate files > because they're easier to write that way. I use a '.test' suffix to > avoid the pretense that these are documentation. I put edge-case > tests in small docstrings in testing modules. I'm not really > religious about using doctests for this, but I find small edge-case > doctests easier to read than traditional unit tests. It's possible > that I'd like py.test tests as much.
Yeah, Marius led me recently to that path too. Write a narrative in text files and use doc strings of functions to do edge cases (or when you don't have time for the narrative). I am getting used to it. I still much prefer the sort of output comparison that doctests/manuel gives me over the assertion language that unittest.TestCase requires. Regards, Stephan -- Entrepreneur and Software Geek Google me. "Zope Stephan Richter" _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [email protected] https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )
