[Zope-dev] Re: Why is test.py silent by default
Florent Guillaume
fg at nuxeo.com
Mon Oct 24 10:15:27 EDT 2005
Tres Seaver wrote:
> The "default" usecase for running tests should be a developer making
> changes and running tests. In this case, "silent" mode is unhelpful;
> it gives no feedback until the very end of the run, which takes a
> **long** time for the whole Zope2 tree. The "dots" provided at
> verbosity level one are good feedback for the developer: they provide a
> clue about how many tests have run, and give some chance of deducing
> that the tests have hung.
>
> Unless somebody has a compelling counter-argument, I will check in a
> patch which makes verbosity level 1 ("dots") the default value. People
> who want quiet mode can always pass '-q'.
+1
Florent
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