On 2/6/2012 7:24 AM, Frank Becker wrote:
On 06.02.12 01:58, Matej Cepl wrote:
I have just finished listening to the FLOSS Weekly podcast #200 (http://twit.tv/show/floss-weekly/200) on autotest, where I've learned about the existence of TAP (http://testanything.org/). A standardization of testing seems to be so obviously The Right Thing™, that it is strange that I don't see much related movement in the Python world (I know only
TAP is not about 'standardization of testing' but standardized communication of test results between test modules and test harness. Python's two stdlib test packages include both test-writing methods and a test harness. They are compatible in the sense that doctests can be run within the unittest framework.
about http://git.codesimply.com/?p=PyTAP.git;a=summary or git://git.codesimply.com/PyTAP.git, which seems to be very very simple and only producer).
I presume PyTAP does something like converting (or rather, wrapping) output from unittests to (or rather, within) the TAP format, which includes wrapping in YAMLish. Or it provides alternate versions of the numerous AssertXxx functions in unittest. This is useful for someone running Python tests within a TAP harness, but not otherwise.
What am I missing? Why nobody seems to care about joining TAP standard?
The 'TAP standard' is what the Perl TAP module does. There is a pre-draft for an IETF standard. You could ask why Perl people don't care about joining the unittest 'standard'.
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