[Zope3-dev] Re: Windows eggs

[Benji York]

Marius Gedminas wrote:
>   - Functional tests: these are .txt files that use zope.testbrowser and
>     are the hardest to debug.  There ought to be a better way to make
>     assertions about HTML output than using ELLIPSIS and then pulling
>     your hair out looking at huge and incomprehensible diffs.

Yep, assertions about HTML (or XML) are difficult to do with plain text. 
  One option is to feed browser.contents to your favorite HTML (XML) parser.

>         Digression: syntax highlighting the diffs helps immensely.
>         Check out http://svn.zope.org/zope.testing/branches/colorized-output/

I'm very much looking forward to that branch being merged to the trunk. 
  I have a feature suggestion: it would be nice to have a switch to say 
"colorize output, unless stdout isn't a terminal", so piping the output 
to a pager (or file) doesn't result in polluted output.
-- 
Benji York
Senior Software Engineer
Zope Corporation