[Grok-dev] How does one unittest a view?

[Wichert Akkerman]

No. In a unittest nothing happens automatically. That's the whole point
of unittests: you want to test things in isolation.

Wichert.


Previously Paul Wilson wrote:
> Silly question, but has your view been grokked prior to calling its constructor?
> 
> 2009/4/8 Wichert Akkerman <wichert at wiggy.net>:
> > I think you misunderstand me. I want to unittest utility methods in my
> > View class. I do not want to write an integration or functional test.
> >
> > Wichert.
> >
> >
> > Previously Vanderson Mota dos Santos wrote:
> >> You should use an integration/funtional layer in this test.
> >>
> >> The name is not really an unit test. It is an acceptance test.
> >> You can do it in 3 ways:
> >>
> >> 1) Test directly in the View class API, instantiating it with the
> >> TestRequest class as parameter. This is called "Under the skin"(
> >> http://codebetter.com/blogs/jeremy.miller/archive/2006/06/08/146233.aspx)
> >>
> >> 2) User the zopetestbrowser - Best option if your view doesn't have any
> >> javascript and you don't need a browser or an "Your Application" instance up
> >> and running to run the test.
> >> Here you will need to use TestRequest as well.
> >>
> >> 3) Use selenium. But you will need to put an application instance running in
> >> order to run your tests.
> >>
> >> good testing!
> >>
> >> 2009/4/8 Wichert Akkerman <wichert at wiggy.net>
> >>
> >> > How can you unittest a view? Trying to instantiate a view in a testcase
> >> > fails when the constructor tries to access self.__view_name__ and
> >> > self.module_info.
> >> >
> >> > Wichert.
> >> >
> >> > --
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