[Zope3-dev] Anyone looked at Puffin?

[Tres Seaver]

On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 16:32, Eron Lloyd wrote:
> No, I've not heard of this before...I must say however that it looks to
> have enormous potential. Thanks for the pointer!
> 
> Eron 
> 
> On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 10:52, Brian Lloyd wrote:
> > Hi all.
> > 
> > I came across a link to Puffin today:
> > 
> > http://puffin.sourceforge.net/puffindocs/UserGuide.htm
> > 
> > It looks like quite an interesting functional testing 
> > framework. It seems like something we might want to 
> > look into further. It would be a Good Thing if we could 
> > build up a comprehensive set of functional tests to 
> > complement the unit tests - and an Even Better Thing if 
> > we don't have to write the tool. :)

As the author of my own functional testing tool, I found myself
nodding as I read the manual;  he covers almost every base I did,
or wanted to.

The only real defect of Puffin derives from the (otherwise defensible)
choice to use XML as the test specification:  embedding Python within
XML requires using the awkward and ugly CDATA[[...]] bit, in order to
preserve whitespace.  Perhaps we should turn him onto TALES?

Example::

  <param name='evalExpression'
  ><![CDATA[$$$TOKEN1$$$ > $$$TOKEN2$$$]]></param>

Tres.
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