[Python-checkins] r46603 - python/trunk/Lib/test/test_struct.py

[Michael Hudson]

"Tim Peters" <tim.peters at gmail.com> writes:

>>>> Author: martin.blais
>>>> Date: Fri Jun  2 15:03:43 2006
>>>> New Revision: 46603
>>>>
>>>> Modified:
>>>>    python/trunk/Lib/test/test_struct.py
>>>> Log:
>>>> Fixed struct test to not use unittest.
>
> [Neal Norwitz]
>>> Shoot, I had hoped you would go the other way and convert all the old
>>> test cases to use unittest. :-)
>
> [Thomas Wouters]
>> Heh, my reaction was both "huh?" and "yay" at the same time. I thought
>> unittest was still preferred for the stdlib testsuite?
>
> That or doctest.  What's definitely unwanted now is the original style
> of test that compares the whole test's output to an expected-output
> file in Lib/test/output/.  Those can be horrid to figure out when they
> go wrong, and don't check at all when running regrtest with -v.
>
> unittest, and especially doctest, encourage breaking tests into small
> units.  An example of neither is test_descr.py, which can be a real
> bitch to untangle when it fails.

Also, there is an advantage to have more structure to the tests; if
all of python's tests used unittest, my regrtest -R gimmickery would
be able to identify tests, rather than test files, that leaked and I'm
pretty sure that this would have saved me a few hours in the last
couple of years.  Also, you can more easily identify particular tests
that fail intermittently.  Etc.

Cheers,
mwh

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