[Zope-dev] Re: Broken Unittest

[Tres Seaver]

Christian Theune wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I address you directly because I haven't received feedback on this from
> the zope-dev mailinglist and you have been the last ones touching code
> in Products/DateIndex.
> 
> This test is breaking for me but not on Jeremys daily tests for Zope 2
> on the HEAD:
> 
> ======================================================================
> FAIL: test_retrieval
> (Products.PluginIndexes.DateIndex.tests.test_DateIndex.DI_Tests)
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File
> "/home/ctheune/Development/Zope/Zope/lib/python/Products/PluginIndexes/DateIndex/tests/test_DateIndex.py", line 184, in test_retrieval
>     self.failUnlessEqual(len(index), len(values) - 2) # One dupe, one
> empty
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/unittest.py", line 302, in failUnlessEqual
>     raise self.failureException, \
> AssertionError: 8 != 9
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> I tried debugging that but I don't know the internal interfaces of the
> PluginIndexes well enough to not waste time.
> 
> I don't know which special information you could need. I'm running
> pretty everything standard (python 2.3, linux with 2.6.3 kernel).
> 
> The Sandbox was compiled by:
> 
>   ./configure
>   make
>   make instance
> 
> The test was run by
> 
>   python2.3 test.py
> 
> This test is the only one that breaks and keeps me from checkin in
> several changes for quite a while already.

That test isn't broken for me on the HEAD.  At a guess, I would bet that 
some change (re)introduced a sensitivity to timezones within the test; 
can you try running the test in an environment where the timezone is 
GMT?   GMT-1?  I think you are in GMT+1 land, right?

Tres.
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