[Zope3-dev] Unittest pleas
Barry A. Warsaw
barry@zope.com
Fri, 20 Dec 2002 12:52:05 -0500
For folks writing unittests, I have a couple of pleas:
- please don't give test*() methods docstrings! Unittest prints the
docstring instead of the name of the method being run and that makes
it much harder to find the test from a verbose output.
Commenting is fine of course, and I'm in the process of cleaning up
a bunch of the Zope3 unittests, with checkins shortly.
- please call your test methods "def test<something>" not "def
check<something>". Consistency is good here, and "test" is the
unittest default. When Jeremy and I do ZODB4 grand renaming, we'll
fix those tests, but I don't plan to change any existing other Zope3
test methods.
Thanks,
-Barry