[Zope3-dev] zope.app.twisted.ftp tests

[Jim Fulton]

Michael Kerrin wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
>   I have just fixed issue #533 and it just reminded me that I have some test 
> for the twisted ftp server written using the Twisted trial testing framework.
> 
>   The reason for this is that at the Neckar sprint I tried to write tests 
> for the zope.app.twisted.ftp.ftp.ZopeFTPShell. This object can be thought of 
> has middle ware between Twisted and Zope, in fact it lives more up in the 
> Twisted server then in Zope. Has most of the methods in this class return 
> Twisted deferred objects it was next to impossible to test these methods 
> using the standard zope testing framework.

Why is that?

 > All these tests are pretty much
> self contained i.e. even by removing zope.app.ftp the tests still pass and 
> there are only 26 of them.
> 
>   I am thinking that it would be a good idea to include these tests as part of 
> the buildbot process, just after all the standard zope tests have run. It 
> means that if some one apart from myself has to make any changes to the 
> zope.app.twisted.ftp module, they will learn pretty quickly if something has 
> broken, or if the Twisted external is updated.
> 
>   I have no idea on how / who to ask for this. But to run the tests we just 
> have to run in the same place has the standard zope tests:
> 
>     ./trial.py zope.app.twisted.ftp.test
> 
>   There is a --reporter argument to this trial program that can take one of 
> the following values bwverbose, text, verbose, or summary to control the 
> amount of output.
> 
>   I hope this isn't to difficult to add in.

I'll look at adding this.

Jim

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