[Twisted-Python] trial (unit test) naming convention or obligation?

[Gabriel Rossetti]

Jonathan Lange wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 1:44 PM, Gabriel Rossetti
> <mailing_lists at evotex.ch> wrote:
>   
>> Hello,
>>
>>  I am starting to use the trial package and while looking at some
>>  examples I saw that some methods start with "test_" and some don't, so I
>>  thought the test cases must start with that, then I noticed in another
>>  file that camelCase was used, so what would have been "test_basic_op" in
>>  one file would be "testBasicOp" in another. I just want to be sure as I
>>  couldn't find any documentation other than "look at the code" (which I
>>  have), and since I never actually found the parser : if a method starts
>>  (contains it at the beginning) with the word "test", then the test suite
>>  will execute it, if not, then it won't, correct?
>>
>>     
>
> The method must begin with 'test' in order to be found as a test by
> Trial's test loader. This is the same as what unittest.TestLoader
> does.
>
> Twisted's internal convention is that methods intended to be found
> dynamically should have the form '<prefix>_<camelCase>'. Sometimes we
> are not so good at following our conventions.
>
> jml
>
>   
Ok, thank you for the info Jonathan, I'll follow the convention then :-)

Gabriel