[Grok-dev] Easier test setup with new grok.testing

[Uli Fouquet]

Hi there,

Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Uli Fouquet wrote:
> > 2) Setup testing.
> > 
> >    Create a Python file whose name starts with 'tests' in your app. For 
> >    example `tests.py`, `tests_myapp.py` or `tests_setup.py`.
> > 
> >    Populate this file with your tests' setup.
> > 
> >    This normally is a bit complicated and you have to remember several 
> >    things/commands/options etc. The shortest setup you can use now looks
> >    like this::
> > 
> >        import unittest
> >        import grok
> >        import cave # The package that contains the doctest files
> > 
> >        def test_suite():
> >            setup = grok.testing.UnitTestSetup(cave)
> >            return setup.getTestSuite()
> > 
> >        if __name__ == '__main__':
> >            unittest.main(default='test_suite')
> > 
> >    This will search your ``cave`` package (including subdirectories) 
> >    for any .rst or .txt files, that contain the testlayer marker string 
> >    as mentioned above and will register the files as doctests.
> 
> I'm assuming something just as simple will work for normal python tests
> instead of doctests?

Not with the current implementation, which only supports doctests. But
it should be not too difficult to do the same for normal python tests.
Is there demand for such an extension?

Kind regards,

-- 
Uli