[Python-Dev] on Python's tests (and making them better)

[Maciej Fijalkowski]

On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 6:23 PM, Benjamin Peterson
<musiccomposition at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> This summer, I am going to be revamping Python's test suite. Major
> things I plan to do include
> - rewriting regrtest.py to be a simple test driver
> - implementing CPython only decorators
> - moving skipping data to the tests themselves (perhaps with decorators)
> - completing the transition to unittest/docttest
> - removing old test_support crud (like verify)
> - increasing the testing of unicode inputs and fixing bugs the appear
> - write new testing docs for newbie contributors
> - merging related tests
> - reorganizing the tests into separate directories
>
> Other suggestions?

Cool! I can help you with some info which tests are unlikely to pass
on top of ie pypy (and *we* decided those are implementation-specific,
but I might be wrong).

Cheers,
fijal