[Zope3-dev] Unittest pleas

[Marius Gedminas]

On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 12:52:05PM -0500, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:
> 
> 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.

I'd like to add the following one:

 - please call your test class "Test<Something>" instead of just "Test".
   This way they'll be easy to locate quickly with tags.

Marius Gedminas
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