Re: [Pyunit-interest] Modifications to PyUnit

[Nathan R H. <na...@he...>]

>Hi Nathan,
>
>The GUI looks cool; thanks for sending it in. I have a few comments
>overall, which may or may not help you:


Thanks for the quick response!

>1.) The ability to create a TestSuite instance from a TestCase class
>containing conventionally named methods is actually already provided by
>the outboard function 'unittest.makeSuite()'. I think I prefer this to
>altering the TestSuite constructor.


The only reason I put it in the Constructor for TestSuite is because this is
where I thought I found it in JUnit. That's it.

>3.) There are complications with reloading modules -- see the recent
>discussions on the list between Shae and myself. To reload the test
>module is not enough to ensure that the tested module is reloaded too.


That is true. It's something I'll be working on for sure. I do have a few
ideas though. My background is in perl, so I'm not sure how easy or natural
this would be in python:

Execute a new instance of the TestResult as a seperate program and parse the
results. In perl I would use backticks to do this. Then the main problem is
keeping track of current working directories and program location.


The other possibility I'm looking at is creating a CGI version with a HTML
form GUI. This is what I did with php, and it worked quite well.

Nathan R Heagy
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