[Grok-dev] a modest proposal: automatically detected doctests

[Christian Theune]

Hey,

Am Donnerstag, den 20.12.2007, 12:08 -0500 schrieb Brandon Craig Rhodes:
> Since Grok is not shy about recursively descending my application in
> order to discover its packages, modules, and classes, I have come to
> believe that it should also not be shy about discovering my doctests.
> That is, running "bin/test" in my Grok instance should automatically,
> without even asking, instantiate each of my source code files inside
> of a DocFileSuite, and run them.  I shouldn't have to go inside of the
> "test/" directory and ask for each of my source code files to be
> doctested.
> 
> Before I explore how to implement this, does anyone else have opinions
> about my idea?

My experience and what I'd like:

* pick up any .txt file in the source code
* make it a docfilesuite
* set the standard flags (at least ELLIPSIS, REPORT_NDIFF and
NORMALIZE_WHITESPACE)

For the environment: it's probably not the best idea but making
everything a functional docfilesuite would hand out enough environment
for everybody.

Something that I was thinking about a while ago was using ReST metadata
to declare unit/functional test. From a resource perspective it probably
doesn't really matter and we could just make it a functional test.

This would require to dynamically create a functional layer that loads
up the package in its normal environment.

That's the easiest solution I can think of. I'd love to see unit test
support though.

Christian

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