[Zope3-Users] App server tracebacks for functional tests

[Jim Washington]

John Maddison wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Firstly, I have written some tests for an application, and with both
> "./bin/test -u" and "./bin/test -f", they pass successfully.  However,
> "./bin/test" fails in the functional tests (on a form submit) with a
> rather uninformative "HTTP Error 500: Internal Server Error".
> Performing as-near-as-I-can-make-it identical actions in a browser
> works fine.  I'm sure I'm missing something obvious - has anyone seen
> something like this before?  [I'm not attaching source code since I've
> not yet observed this problem in anything less than the entire
> (unfortunately) proprietary application I'm working on.]
>
> Secondly, and leading on from this, is it possible to get the
> traceback the application server side of things produces in functional
> (zope.app.testing.functional.FunctionalDocFileSuite) tests?  At the
> moment the only information I'm seeing is the aforementioned 500
> error.
>
If you are using zope.testbrowser,  you can set

browser.handleErrors=False

to get a more informative traceback.

-Jim Washington