best python unit testing framwork

[Timothy Grant]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 5:16 PM, Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> wrote:
> 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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When I first learned about Unit Testing seven years ago, I thought to
myself "what a colossal waste of time." Now if I don't have tests I
really start to worry. I am a write the tests first kind-of-guy, and
my code and my ability to maintain my code have both improved
dramatically.


-- 
Stand Fast,
tjg.  [Timothy Grant]