best python unit testing framwork

Roy Smith roy at panix.com
Wed Nov 12 20:16:22 EST 2008


In article <mailman.3896.1226516491.3487.python-list at python.org>,
 "Timothy Grant" <timothy.grant at gmail.com> wrote:

> I wanted to like unittest but couldn't. So I started using py.test. I
> even wrote a plugin for TextMate to interface with py.test. If I had
> known about Nose I would likely have used it instead because it is
> built on top of the standard module. Now I have many thousands of
> lines of py.test code so am not likely to make the change.

A lot of people like or dislike various unit test frameworks for all sorts 
of reasons.  But, the bottom line is still that the best unit test 
framework is the one which gets you to use it every time you write a line 
of code.



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