[Zope3-dev] mangled names in tests
Stephan Richter
stephan.richter@tufts.edu
Mon, 16 Dec 2002 02:26:52 -0500
On Saturday 14 December 2002 08:39, Jim Fulton wrote:
> OK, so let's agree that we won't use mangled names this way anymore.
> In general, I suggest that when a testing framework requires a
> method to be defined that:
>
> - It documents this requirement in it's doc string. (I failed to do this
> in a numner of cases. Bad me.)
>
> - The names required reflect the framework in some way (e.g. _newMapping
> _sampleMappingData)
>
> - The names required should begin with a single underscore to indicate that
> they are methods needed by (private too) an inherited framework
> (like C++ protected).
This should go into the style guide. I am a little out of this Wiki, who is
maintaining the testing guides? David? If you tell me where it should go I'll
add it in.
Regards,
Stephan
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