Re: [Pyunit-interest] Converting Python's test suite to PyUnit?

[Dinu G. <gh...@da...>]

Steve Purcell wrote:
> 
> Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:
> >   Actually, I expect the best way to migrate these tests is to rework
> > the individual test_* tests to use PyUnit instead of the current
> > code.  This will be tedious but will result in a much more
> > mamanagable test package.
> 
> That would certainly be best, though it's a *big* job! You  
> might have fun getting everyone else to re-write their tests. 

Well, every finite job can be broken down in a number of 
reasonable chunks, can't it? If somebody gives me the
rights I can convert some code myself, but it might be
beneficial to have some guideline to get a consistent
test suite implementation. Maybe that's the real issue?

> I've come across a couple of pieces of code that wrap 
> doctest tests into PyUnit test cases -- they might
> be helpful for Tim's 'doctest'-based regression tests.

This sounds interesting. At ReportLab we thought about 
a couple of different situations where you want to wrap
existing tests and/or non-Python apps using PyUnit. This 
could be stuff in the if __name__ == '__main__': section 
of Python modules, but also compiled executables, Python
or not. 

If somebody has any thoughts/experience in doing this, 
please share it with us! Thanks!

Regards,

Dinu