[Zope-Coders] Re: reporting failures loading tests from test.py

[Tres Seaver]

Jeremy Hylton wrote:
> Tres has been rightly complaining that errors that prevent a test suite
> from even loading, e.g. a top-level import error in a test module, do
> not result in a test failure.  test.py prints an error message at the
> start, but it can still finish with a report that says all tests passed.
> 
> I've checked in a change in Packages/Zope2+3/test.py that reports a
> single test error for each failure to load a test module.  I'd like to
> check it in on the Zope 2 and Zope 3 heads, but it will cause some a
> test failure.
> 
> On Zope3, we've got at least the following failure:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "test.py", line 528, in get_suite
>     mod = package_import(modname)
>   File "test.py", line 520, in package_import
>     mod = __import__(modname)
>   File
> "/tmp/autotestYwoOE1/Zope3/src/zope/publisher/tests/test_browserrequest.py", line 33, in ?
>     from zope.publisher.tests.test_http import HTTPTests
>   File
> "/tmp/autotestYwoOE1/Zope3/src/zope/publisher/tests/test_http.py", line
> 21, in ?
>     from zope.app.services.tests.placefulsetup import PlacefulSetup
> ImportError: No module named services.tests.placefulsetup
> 
> This is a heads up, so that whoever is responsible can fix the test
> today.  I'll check in the changes later this afternoon.  It will
> generate output like this:

Excellent!

Tres.
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