[Zope-CMF] Re: Zope 3 events from workflow

[Tres Seaver]

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Rocky Burt wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-27-12 at 11:46 +0100, Jens Vagelpohl wrote:
>> P.S.: I _hate hate hate_ doctests ;)
> 
> Why?

I won't speak for Jens, but I find they have two serious drawbacks when
used as *unit tests* (as opposted to quasi-functional tests with narrative):

  - Tests dont run in isolation from one another (this is why I say
    quasi-functional).

  - The contortions required to get testable output printed often
    obscure the intent of the test itself.

I prefer a unit test module with many tests, each *exteremely short*,
with each test covering exactly *one* of the permutations of the state
which triggers the behavior-under-tset.  The name of the test case
method can then serve to document the intent.

I try to keep those tests short by factoring "setup" code out into
helper methods.



Tres.
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