Let me preface every reply here by YMMV. I strongly, strongly encourage people to tap into the unit testing community for all tools that are available to them.
Also, let me say that despite any place where Steven and I disagree about the mechanics of unit testing, we're in firm agreement that UNIT TESTING IS IMPORTANT. And sorry for shouting. And, really, if you're not doing automated tests on your application now, you don't know what you're missing. --- Steven Bethard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 1) For flat-out failures, we just fail with a > > traceback right away. > > Looks like that's the -x/--exitfirst option in > py.test. > Yes, but for my purposes, it's even easier to do absolutely nothing when a test fails, just let it pass through. > > 2) We don't use assertions very often, but > rather > > just diff the output files to the GOLD files. > This > > may eventually stop to scale, but it hasn't yet. > > I guess I don't do enough stuff with file input and > file output for this > to make sense for me. > First, I should say that we don't completely ignore assertion tests, as it's useful for testing truly functional code, such as something that simply parses a message. But most of our application is I/O driven, and the actual tricky modules of our application do manage a conversation between a terminal and a host, and it's that conversation between the terminal that we want to proceed in a predictable fashion. > > 4) We have quite a few mock-ish objects, mainly > > relating to simulating I/O situations. > > > You might look into the Python Mock module: > > http://python-mock.sourceforge.net/ > Again, this is a case, where pardon my arrogance, I already know how my objects work, so I already know how to emulate them. I've read up on mock objects, so I'm not totally ignoring common wisdom, it's just that I get it, have a powerful language at my disposal, etc. I fully concede that my mock objects might be missing key features from the Python Mock module, but I also assert that I can implement pretty robust unit testing without it. ____________________________________________________________________________________Got a little couch potato? Check out fun summer activities for kids. http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mail&p=summer+activities+for+kids&cs=bz -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
