[Zope-dev] zope.testing 3.8 fails in mysterious ways

[Godefroid Chapelle]

Sidnei da Silva wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 9:33 PM, Martin Aspeli<optilude+lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Unfortunately, I've got other packages that depend on a newer
>> zope.testing (specifically, collective.testcaselayer). But I thought
>> zope.testing aimed to be able to run any "valid" tests, so it sounds
>> like a bug in zope.testing regardless, at least since every other test
>> I've run in the same instance work fine.
> 
> The traceback you pasted shows an UnboundLocalError. What about
> looking at the source and figuring out why that local variable is not
> defined?
> 
> -- Sidnei

I bumped into the same bug while working on the same package...

I allowed myself to add the missing assignment.
However, I'd like someone to check over my shoulder.
http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/checkins/2009-July/036586.html

Further, this bug is triggered by another one happening when running 
tests with buildout in plone.z3cform current trunk (r102411).

The test runner is trying to spawn a subprocess with the --resume-layer 
argument.  However, the --resume-layer argument is not accepted by the 
subprocess.

This produces an error in a format not foreseen by the error parser. 
(which then triggered the UnboundLocalError).

It would be nice if someone with a better understanding of the 
testrunner could take a look and understand why the --resume-layer stuff 
happens. Christian ?

-- 
Godefroid Chapelle (aka __gotcha) http://bubblenet.be