[Zope-dev] zope.testing console script

Christian Theune ct at gocept.com
Fri May 16 07:31:14 EDT 2008


On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 08:32:28AM -0400, Benji York wrote:
> On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 7:43 AM, Wichert Akkerman <wichert at wiggy.net> wrote:
> > Is there a reason to advocate zope.testing over the others? Would it
> > perhaps make more sense to use one of the more widely used tools instead
> > of maintaing our own testing toolkit?
> 
> I'd also like for us to adopt one of the more widely used test
> runners, but as mentioned in replies, there are some features in
> zope.testing that we depend on.  If someone were adequately motivated
> and had sufficient time (neither of which I have, so I suspect no one
> else does either), it would be interesting to attempt to endue another
> test runner with the features we need (layers, etc.).

I like our test runner and spent time refactoring it so we can actually start
making changes again. I looked at other test runners (nose, py.test) and
didn't find anything compelling (to me) that we didn't already have.

Christian

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