Lacrima <lacrima.ma...@gmail.com> writes: > And I have already refused to write totally isolated tests, because it > looks like a great waste of time.
It only looks like that until you chase your tail in a long, fruitless debugging session because (you later realise) the behaviour of one test is being affected by another. Test isolation is essential to ensure that your tests are doing what you think they're doing. -- \ “A ‘No’ uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater | `\ than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to | _o__) avoid trouble.” —Mohandas K. Gandhi | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list