From: "Michael Foord" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I assume this doesn't rule out the addition of [some of..] the new convenience test methods?
In Kent Beck's book on Test Driven Development, he complains that most unittest implementations spawned from his original work have grown far too complicated and would be better served by sticking to a simple framework for writing and running tests.
Accordlingly, if a new test method gets added, it needs to add some signficant new capability. IMO, little "convenience" methods like
self.assertLessThan() do not meet the criterion. Polluting the module with more methods makes it harder to fit into your head and does little to simplify the task of writing mountains of tests. If some people want to proceed down the path of "useful additions", I challenge them to think bigger. Give me some test methods that improve my life. Don't give me thirty ways to spell something I can already do. Raymond _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
