On Jul 20, 10:05 am, Olemis Lang <ole...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 7/20/09, Jeff Hammel <jham...@openplans.org> wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 09:29:22AM -0500, Olemis Lang wrote: > > > On 7/20/09, Jeff Hammel <jham...@openplans.org> wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 08:47:21AM -0500, Olemis Lang wrote: > > > > Well concerning test frameworks (e.g. `unittest`, `doctest` ...) I > > > imagine (I'm sure ?) it's possible. but in the case of Trac plugins > > > there is a peculiar characteristic: > > > > - How do I get an env populated with the test data ? > > > - How do I mock things ? > > > - How can I setup (in the test code) the test env so that it can load > > > my plugin ? > > > > > > - How ? I mean what are the best practices, procedures, steps (or > > > > > whatever ;o) to do it. > > > > > Shoot, I wish I knew. I'd love to know myself. > > > > The former are just a few questions (doubts ?) I have. I could start > > > writing all that from scratch using any testing framework, but I > > > imagine that you already have shortcuts for this (isnt it ? oh ! > > > please tell me so :( ... ). > > > No, sadly, my shortcut is not to write tests because its difficult > > Wow ! What a tiny shortcut ! :P > > Well in that case I could take some time to make it simpler, but I'd > not want to start from scratch specially knowing that maybe there's > something out there being useful ;o) > > The fact is that some plugins I maintain are getting bigger and I > really need to find a way to perform regression tests automatically on > them. I prefer to spend some time writing something for that purpose > instead of wasting the same time (or more :-/ ) testing every single > feature and their interactions > > > and because I don't know if there is a testing framework > > When I said «I could start writing all that from scratch using any > testing framework, » I was thinking about general-purpose testing > framews (e.g. unittest, doctest, nose, py.test, dutest ; or maybe > others like Mock or twill ) > > > and I haven't had time to write one myself :( Hence me revoicing your > > concerns > > Well probably it's time to code together and start doing it ;o) In the > end that should be better for everybody : Better plugins for Trac :) > > -- > Regards, > > Olemis. > > Blog ES:http://simelo-es.blogspot.com/ > Blog EN:http://simelo-en.blogspot.com/ > > Featured article:
trac itself has unit tests, would this not be a good place to start? http://trac.edgewall.org/browser/branches/0.11-stable/TESTING-README Just a thought. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Trac Users" group. To post to this group, send email to trac-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to trac-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/trac-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
