[ZODB-Dev] Repozo tests -- not

[Godefroid Chapelle]

Tres Seaver wrote:
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> Godefroid Chapelle wrote:
>> Godefroid Chapelle wrote:
>>> Jim Fulton wrote:
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>>>> No one seems to be willing to step up and take responsibility.
>>>> I guess everyone assumes I will.
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>>>> Jim
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>>> I'll take the responsibility of transforming the manual test to an 
>>> automated...
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>> Done in svn.zope.org/repos/main/ZODB/branches/test_repozo
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>> I added code changes from revisions 105888, 105915 and 105919.
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>> Tests pass for me on MacOSX with 2.4, 2.5 and 2.6
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> Thanks for throwing yourself on that grenade, Godefroid.  I have checked
> in changes to your branch which:
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> - - Use a tempdir for backup / restore.

Sure.

> 
> - - Clean out module-scope imports.

Can you tell me why this is better ?

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> - - Avoid shellling out to run repozo, but rather use its main(),
>   passing argv.

I thought of this but decided to not go that way to test that repozo can 
actually run on a living database. Even if the code that was there still 
needs to be modified to achieve that goal.
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> - - Suppress noisy output, unless NOISY_REPOZO_TEST_OUTPUT is in the
>   environment.

Cool !

> 
> Remaining cleanup would be to remove the "Monte Carlo" use of random to
> generate permutations:  the test takes a *long* time to run, because it
> tries to run 100 times and use random.random to get permutations of the
> three choices run:  these should be six separate tests, likely.

I had thought of this as well. This will be my next task.

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> Tres.
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