[Zope-dev] Re: unit tests

[Tres Seaver]

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Jens Vagelpohl wrote:
> 
> On 12 Apr 2007, at 13:35, Miles wrote:
>>> However, having logged this, the testrunner proceeded to run all my  
>>> tests correctly, and so the buildbot reported a pass.  I expected  
>>> the testrunner to bomb out on encountering this error, but it  
>>> didn't - however if I start zope with zopectl fg, the bug I  
>>> introduced causes it to fail to start.
>>>
>>> I'm a bit concerned that there was a false test pass.  Is there a  
>>> way to stop the testrunner in this case, in the same way as running  
>>> in fg mode?
> 
> If I remember correctly the startup success/failure with a defective  
> product present is governed by debug mode. If you turn it on in  
> zope.conf and attempt to start Zope via "zopectl start" it should  
> fail as desired. "zopectl fg" forces debug mode to be switched on.

Correct.  The reason the OP's tests are passing is likely that they are
real unit tests, and therefore don't depend on having the product's
'initialize' method run (if they did, they would be *integration* or
*functional* tests).


Tres.
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