[Zope-dev] zope.[testing.]testrunner does not handle unexpected successes correctly

[Michael Howitz]

Am 16.02.2011 um 10:36 schrieb Michael Howitz:
> Hi,
> 
> Python 2.7 added the concept of expectedFailures to unittest.
> See http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles/unittest2.shtml#more-skipping
> 
> When a test decorated with @unittest.expectedFailure does not raise an exception, this test is counted as success when running the tests with zope.[testing.]testrunner instead of being counted separately as 'unexpected success'.
> 
> It should be handled separately as a new result class besides failures and errors.
> 
> As it would be heavy to implement the whole concept I have a workaround which is supported by Python's unittest:
> 
> When `addUnexpectedSuccess` on zope.testrunner.runner.TestResult is None, we signal unittest that zope.testrunner ist not able to handle unexpected successes.
> Although this produces a Warning it counts the unexpected success as failure instead of being ignored.
> 
> I wrote a bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/zope.testing/+bug/719369
> and prepared a branch with the described workaround: http://svn.zope.org/zope.testrunner/branches/icemac-lp-719369
> 
> If no-one objects I'd like to merge it to the trunk and cut a new release.

Hi,

as no-one objected, I merged the workaround to the trunk and released zope.testrunner 4.0.1.
I adapted the patch to zope.testing.testrunner and released there as 3.9.6.


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