[Zope3-dev] Re: Windows eggs

[Wichert Akkerman]

Previously Marius Gedminas wrote:
>   - Unit tests: there are many of those, they're independent (thus a
>     single .txt for a collection of tests is a Bad Idea), they're short
>     (so understanding and debugging is easy) and expressive.  I put
>     those into .py files full with functions that look like
> 
>         def doctest_FooClass_does_this():
>             """Test that FooClass is able to ...
> 
>                 >>> foo = FooClass()
>                 >>> results = foo.do_this()
>                 >>> for fruit, score, comments in results:
>                 ...     print fruit.ljust(10), '|', score.ljust(5), '|', comments
>                 Orange     | 9     | Tastes good, a bit sour
>                 Apple      | 8     | Varies
> 
>             """
> 
>     and have a traditional test_suite() function at the end that returns
>     a DocTestSuite with the appropriate setUp/tearDown/optionflags.

Until you have to step through the test with pdb, at which point it
becomes very painful.

Wichert.

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