[Zope-dev] Unit testing, ZUnit - It is in the fishbowl, please comment

[Lalo Martins]

The proposal below is in the fishbowl, at
http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Proposals/UnitTestingProducts

The approach will be, developing the standalone ZUnit Product
while the proposal is in the fishbowl, then push for the
proposal (integrating it with App/Product*.py). Expect a first
release of ZUnit next week or in the other.

In the meanwhile, please comment in the proposal's discussion
page :-) (or here)


On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 10:56:31PM -0200, Lalo Martins wrote:
> We (I and Hiperlógica) started to develop a Product we called
> ZUnit, intended for XP-style unit-testing Python-based
> Products in a full Zope environment (with a real ZODB, REQUEST,
> RESPONSE, etc).
> 
> We first conceived it as a kind of Zope-based version of
> unittestgui.py - you create a "TestRunner" object giving it the
> package, module and name of a TestSuite object generator (see
> the PyUnit documentation) and inside it you may click on some
> widget to run the tests and produce a "TestResult" object which
> you can inspect later. Does this sound like a good design?
> 
> Then I figured in the long run a Product isn't the best
> sollution; instead, fiddling with App/Product* sounds more like
> it, to allow developers to register tests just like they
> register classes, ZClass superclasses, _misc and help. Of
> course, just like the current registerHelp and others, it
> wouldn't be mandatory and not using it wouldn't break anything.
> 
> Then, in the Product's page in the Control Panel, there would
> be a tab "Test", where you'd be allowed to run the unit tests.
> 
> What do people think of this? What does DC think of this? Can I
> go ahead and develop it in this direction?



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