On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Free Ekanayaka <f...@64studio.com> wrote: > Hi Jonathan, > > |--==> On Wed, 8 Feb 2012 08:32:27 +0000, Jonathan Lange <j...@mumak.net> > said: > > [...] > > JL> I know it's bad form, but I endorse everything that Glyph said. Except > JL> that I'd add that testtools is awesome and you should use that. > > Would you elaborate on that and explain why you come to prefer it over > trial for your new projects?
That's mostly documented here: http://testtools.readthedocs.org/en/latest/overview.html and in the other docs. In a nutshell: details, fixtures, matchers, and a bunch of unittest extensions that make it much more flexible, making it easy to write things like parallel test runners and AsynchronousDeferredRunTest. Trial provides an excellent test runner, but for everything else is pretty much standard. I don't really have a summary of why ADRT is better than Trial's deferred test support. It's largely because you get better debugging information for failed tests (that's what "details" are all about) and because reactor cleanup issues are more localized to individual tests due to not having to support addCleanup and making no promises about what happens outside of test execution. jml _______________________________________________ Twisted-Python mailing list Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python
