Chris Withers wrote:
Fred Drake wrote:
On 11/23/05, Lennart Regebro <regebro@gmail.com> wrote:
Basically, I'd like to create a site once, and use it for all subsequent tests, until I made a change that means the site needs to be recreated. But how? Well, I'm not sure. How, for example, could I
Jim's "new test runner" includes support for "layers", which solves this issue. I think the Zope 2 trunk is already using the new test runner; you can also use it on the Zope 3 trunk. We're using test layers extensively here, and it really helps.
Cool, how does a Zope 2.8.4 developer go about findout out about these layers and using them?
Look at http://svn.zope.org/zope.testing/trunk/src/zope/testing/. Unfortunately, there isn't really documentation on what layers are for or how to write them. This is a an ommission that needs to be addressed. You should be able to use the new test runner in 2.8. We use it with 3.1. It is included in 2.9 and 3.2. To see how layers are are used, look at zope.app.testing.functional on the Z3 trunk. The Zope 3 functional tests are now provided via a layer. In the coming months we'll be releasing packages that use layers to provide independent functional tests. Jim -- Jim Fulton mailto:jim@zope.com Python Powered! CTO (540) 361-1714 http://www.python.org Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com http://www.zope.org