[Zope3-dev] [OT] ZUnit

[Leonardo Rochael Almeida]

On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 14:41, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 05:02:55PM -0200, Leonardo Rochael Almeida wrote:
> > > > How does this interact with the (admittedly edge) case of pages where 
> > > > you want to write the output bit by bit?
> > > > (I'm thinking things like the dots that ZUnit used to write out...)
> > 
> > Wow, someone actually remember those :-) (Hi Albertaas, enjoying being
> > the new mantainer? :-)
> 
> I don't know about Albertas' feelings, but I enjoy adding random
> features to ZUnit.  One of them uses some (shudder) javascript magic to
> update document title dynamically showing the number of tests run,
> errors and failures.  Now it is possible to do something useful in the
> foreground while waiting for the tests to finish (our tests are
> unfortunately quite heavy and take about 10 minutes to complete).  An
> occasional glance towards the taskbar will immediately show the running
> progress ("124/5/6 of 220"), updated in real time.
> 
> You can think of this as "ZUnit dots on steroids", or just another
> actual use case for streaming pages.

That's neat. I thought of using javascript to fill a progress bar on the
page, but yours is even more useful :-)

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