[Zope-dev] Test fixture concepts

[Stephan Richter]

On Tuesday, March 29, 2011, Jim Fulton wrote:
> > so I may forgo them.
> 
> Which is a mistake. You should create separate tests.  I typically put
> large tests, dealing with main use cases where there is a definite
> flow of activity in '.test' files.  I do these in separate files
> because they're easier to write that way.  I use a '.test' suffix to
> avoid the pretense that these are documentation.  I put edge-case
> tests in small docstrings in testing modules.  I'm not really
> religious about using doctests for this, but I find small edge-case
> doctests easier to read than traditional unit tests. It's possible
> that I'd like py.test tests as much.

Yeah, Marius led me recently to that path too. Write a narrative in text files 
and use doc strings of functions to do edge cases (or when you don't have time 
for the narrative). I am getting used to it. I still much prefer the sort of 
output comparison that doctests/manuel gives me over the assertion language 
that unittest.TestCase requires.

Regards,
Stephan
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