How to organize test cases with PyUnit

[Roy Smith]

Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> wrote:
> We put all of ours in a subdirectory called "unit" [...] we similarly
> use "_user" or "_accept" at the end

That makes sense.

> As for getting out of sync -- this is not a problem if you always
> write the test code before the application code

I know that's the way it's supposed to happen, but somehow we never seem 
to quite reach that particular state of bliss :-)

> We modify PYTHONPATH to include ".." first and run from the folder 
> containing the tests.  Then the "import module" is all we need.

Seems reasonable.
 
> By the way, you might encounter problems with "module-test.py" as
> a file name at some point... you couldn't import it, for example.
> Use underscores instead of hyphens...

Good point; I hadn't thought of that.  We've been using the 
"filename-test" convention with our TCL stuff, and I brought it over 
from that.

Thanks for the input.