Re: Initial nose experience

2012-07-27 Thread Roy Smith
In article , Roy Smith wrote: > Lastly, nose, by default, doesn't say much. When things go wrong and > you have no clue what's happening, --verbose and --debug are your > friends. I found another example of nose not saying much, and this one is kind of annoying. Unittest has much richer as

Re: Initial nose experience

2012-07-23 Thread Roy Smith
Does nose run all of its collected tests in a single process? I've got a test which monkey-patches an imported module. Will all of the other tests collected in the same run of nosetests see the patch? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Initial nose experience

2012-07-16 Thread Ben Finney
Roy Smith writes: > In article , > pyt...@bdurham.com wrote: > > > After years of using unittest, what would you say are the pros and > > cons of nose? > > BTW, although I'm currently using nose just as a unittest aggregator Be aware that Python 2.7 and higher has unit test discovery in the sta

Re: Initial nose experience

2012-07-16 Thread Peter Otten
Philipp Hagemeister wrote: > Currently, $ python -m unittest does nothing useful (afaik). Would it > break anything to look in . , ./test, ./tests for any files matching > test_* , and execute those? http://docs.python.org/library/unittest#test-discovery -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/lis

Re: Initial nose experience

2012-07-16 Thread Roy Smith
In article , pyt...@bdurham.com wrote: > After years of using unittest, what would you say are the pros and > cons of nose? BTW, although I'm currently using nose just as a unittest aggregator, I can see some nice advantages to native nose functionality. The most obvious is that tests can be

Re: Initial nose experience

2012-07-16 Thread Philipp Hagemeister
On 07/15/2012 08:58 PM, Roy Smith wrote: >> What motivated you to migrate from unittest to nose? > Mostly I was just looking for a better way to run our existing tests. > We've got a bunch of tests written in standard unittest, but no good way > to start at the top of the tree and run them all w

Re: Initial nose experience

2012-07-15 Thread Roy Smith
In article , pyt...@bdurham.com wrote: > Hi Roy, > > > I've been using unittest for many years, but have steadfastly > (perhaps stubbornly) avoided newfangled improvements like nose. > I finally decided to take a serious look at nose. > > Thanks for sharing your nose experience. > > What mo

Re: Initial nose experience

2012-07-15 Thread python
Hi Roy, > I've been using unittest for many years, but have steadfastly (perhaps stubbornly) avoided newfangled improvements like nose. I finally decided to take a serious look at nose. Thanks for sharing your nose experience. What motivated you to migrate from unittest to nose? After years