Hi, On 22 May 2013 05:26, Jim Mooney <cybervigila...@gmail.com> wrote:
> But that brings up a point. Does this mean that if I have to test a > module with a lot of subroutines I have to rename every subroutine > with 'test' appended? > Some quick comments for what it's worth: (One of) the points about nose is to make lessen the overhead needed to write tests. With unittest, you have to create a subclass of unittest.Testcase in order to identify and package tests for the test framework, and manually organise them into suites. This is fine, but slightly burdensome if all you want is to write a function or functions that tests another function or functions (maybe working still in just one single file at that point, as it were, on a single function or so.) Nose allows you to do this, e.g. just start writing tests with as little friction/resistance as possible. But there's a question: How is the test runner now supposed to "know" whether an arbitrary function in a module is in fact a test? With unittest, the test framework "knows" (get it) by the fact that tests are descended from a common base class. But with an arbitrary function, how should the test framework know? So to answer your question: In short, yes, you have to let nose know whether a given piece of code is a test. Either include the word "test" in the function name either prefixed or postfixed as "_test" as you asked Or you can do it like unittest requires, e.g. create a test class descended from unittest.Testcase, in which case your method names then don't matter IIRC. You may have read this already, but the relevant documentation page: https://nose.readthedocs.org/en/latest/writing_tests.html Aside, doctest answers/approaches this same question by reading IIRC docstring entries for classes, methods or modules (?) and assumes that text that looks like python interpreter styled input/output sequences defines test input/output sequences. Walter
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