[Zope-dev] Test fixture concepts

[Martijn Faassen]

On 03/27/2011 05:13 PM, Martin Aspeli wrote:
> On 27 March 2011 15:54, Uli Fouquet<uli at gnufix.de>  wrote:
>
>> The (limited) experiences with py.test, however, were awesome. Some
>> points that are quite cool IMHO:
>>
>> - Easy finding of tests: just write some ``test_function`` in a
>>   ``test_module`` and it will be found and executed. That also makes
>>   py.test tests more readable and maybe more intuitive.
>
> I'm not sure this is always a good idea. It feels a bit implicit, and
> having a base class isn't really a big problem, IMHO. It seems a bit
> like the kind of thing that sounds cool (look, it's even easier!), but
> in practice makes little difference.

Belatedly adding my few cents here: in practice I quite enjoy not having 
to copy ugly boilerplate from test modules that I always always forget.

It's actually nice to just write a test_* function and have the test 
runner just work.

So it's cool for some people, namely me.

Regards,

Martijn