[Zope-dev] unit test policy questions

[Christian Theune]

On 07/29/2010 02:17 PM, Jens Vagelpohl wrote:
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> On 7/29/10 14:00 , Martin Aspeli wrote:
>> On 29 July 2010 19:26, yuppie<y.2010 at wcm-solutions.de>  wrote:
>>> 1.) Is it still policy to add these lines?
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>>> 2.) Is there a better solution for using zope testrunner than the one
>>> shown above?
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>> I never do either. I install zc.recipe.testrunner in a buildout and
>> use bin/test, which picks up tests in modules automatically.
>
> Same here. I have never in my life run tests by executing the module.
> The options provided by the testrunner to pare down what I want to test
> have always been sufficient for me.
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> I have had a tendency to add these blurbs myself, thinking "I guess it's
> useful for *someone*". But IMHO it's like those CVS/SVN $Id$ snippets,
> it's not really useful anymore.

Fullack.

Even better: the current test runner even lets you avoid the test_suite 
function in many cases.


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