[Zope-Coders] paging the testing committee

Martijn Faassen faassen@vet.uu.nl
Tue, 16 Oct 2001 19:57:16 +0200


Jeremy Hylton wrote:
> >>>>> "MF" == Martijn Faassen <faassen@vet.uu.nl> writes:
> 
>   MF> Anyway, first I need to know what the testing standards are in
>   MF> the first place. Where do I look? I hear Guido say it was
>   MF> decided there was to be a committee to straighten things
>   MF> out. Who is in this committee and what progress has been made?
> 
> The committee included a bunch of people: Jim, Jeremy, Jeffrey, Fred,
> Evan, Chris, Brian.

Ah, so now I know who to bug! (muhah!)
 
[snip list]

Thanks, that helps a lot. I can start hacking up the ParsedXML tests which
I think break quite a few of these guidelines.

Perhaps Steve Alexander can add this stuff to his zen page, or should I
do that, Steve? :)

> There was more stuff about the Testing package in Zope/lib/python.
> I'm not sure I understand the details, but you need to import it to
> use it.
> 
> There are a bunch of examples that execfile() something called
> framework.py, but that's deprecated.  I believe Tres has started
> removing it.

Yup, I've seen evidence of that in the CVS archive.

Regards,

Martijn