On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Lennart Regebro <rege...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 15:48, Marius Gedminas <mar...@gedmin.as> wrote: >> If you've the discipline to keep the doctests short, I don't see why you >> shouldn't continue writing them instead of unit tests > > Because they are a bitch to debug, relies on details of output, which > makes them brittle, hard to port to Python 3, and can be tricky to set > up with loads of subtle things like inheriting the environment from > where the DocTest was created, etc. >
You may wish to read: http://bemusement.org/diary/2008/October/23/narrative-tests http://bemusement.org/diary/2008/October/24/more-doctest-problems which are an extended meditation on the whole topic. jml _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )
