[Zope-ZEO] Advice

[Jim Fulton]

Andrew Kuchling wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 03:22:59PM -0400, Chris McDonough wrote:
> >How do you define "complex object"?  Do you mean specifically without using
> >Python?
> 
> No, just something that has a very complex internal state, consisting of 45
> different states, which can be grouped into 7 over-arching phases. This is
> something complicated enough that you want it surrounded by an elaborate
> test suite so you don't inadvertently break one transition when fixing
> another.  Doing an effectively test suite for this in the Zope environment
> seems impossible.  You could write a Python object, test it from the Python
> command-line, and then write a layer of glue on top of it to turn it into a
> Product, but how do you test the glue?

There is a Zope testing/debugging framework for doing exactly that.
The only trick is that, assuming that you don't want the tests
to make persistent changes, you need to install a null transaction 
manager.

Jim

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