[Pyunit-interest] ANN: PyUnitTestBrowser

[Phlip <ppl...@om...>]

PyUnit Interest:

This is a graphical test browser; an alternative to GuiTestRunner:

        http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?PyUnitTestBrowser
        http://flea.sourceforge.net/browser002.zip

It triggers tests when you change your source or test file. Therefor it 
provides One Button Testing for any editor. 

If an error occurs, you can surf to the error point automatically with Vim. 
I'm currently adding support for Idle; this is new, but the first scratch 
appears in that zip file.

I wrote this because...

A> at work we have a hand-made proprietary test runner with no GUI that 
philosophically diverges from PyUnit, and...

B> after hearing about the miracle of TestFirst for years and only using 
CppUnit once, I developed a (glowing) mental image of what graphic test 
runners presented that in no way paralleled the actual (dim) reality.

So to put them together, I allocated resources at work (me), to write a 
greenfield GUI test browser for our rig. Then I ported all of the relevant 
features back to PyUnit, out to LGPL instead of Private, creating 
PyUnitTestBrowser.

Also, I discovered another missing feature about PyUnit (and the other *Units 
I have interviewed). All of them seem to have neglected to include their own 
unit tests in their distributions. This sentence refers to itself. >sigh<

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