[Zope3-dev] Making tests loopable

[Jim Fulton]

I'm on a small crusade to make the Zope 3 tests runnable in a loop.
This is important so that we can look for memory leaks (using test.py's
-r and -L options).

Unit tests are supposed to leave their environment as they found it, so
they don't affect other tests. That would seem to mean that they should
not interfere with themselves. :)

There were about 15 tests that didn't run in a loop. I've fixed most of these.
There are still a few that don't run in a loop:

test_provideInterface (zope.app.dav.tests.test_directives.DirectivesTest)
test_newMessage (zope.app.mail.tests.test_maildir.TestMaildir)
testSend (zope.app.mail.tests.test_service.TestQueuedMailService)
test_register (zope.app.onlinehelp.tests.test_helpdirectives.DirectivesTest)
test_sourcetype (zope.app.renderer.tests.test_directives.DirectivesTest)

It would be great if someone (e.g. the test authors ;) would fix these.

To see the failures, run the tests with -L, as in:

   python test.py -L --dir zope/app/renderer . test_sourcetype

Jim

P.S. You might want to look at my checkin messahes for today to see
      the sorts of things I had to change for the tests I fixed.

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