[Zope-dev] Re: Unit Test Failures

[Tres Seaver]

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Benji York wrote:

> The Zope2 unit tests have been failing for some time on
> buildbot.zope.com.  Looks like a Five-related problem:
> http://buildbot.zope.org/Zope%20trunk%202.4%20Linux%20zc-buildbot/builds/109/test/0

The failing test is a functional test, not a unit test;  I don't run
them by default when I check in.  I see a couple of problem points:  the
biggest is the use in the output of 'checkSiteManager.html' of a repr'ed
dict, which might render differently between different machines (or even
the same machine across Python versions).  This is a classic case where
the "doctest" does *not* provide clarity over a "traditional" 'unittest'
style test, IMNSHO.

I'm not sure what it is testing, either;  CC'ing Phillip, whose
fingerprints are on it, according the 'svn blame', for clarification.


Tres.
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