id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	resolution	keywords	cc	branch	branch_author	launchpad_bug
3604	Create a single definitive module for commonly used test helpers and consolidate usage from existing test modules	exarkun		"There is crazy sprawl in our test suite of ""utilities"":

  * twisted/test/testutils.py - some random garbage, probably mostly PB related, but not really documented well enough that one could use it
  * twisted/test/ssl_helpers.py - some context factories; why would anyone even need these?  we have context factories already.
  * twisted/test/time_helpers.py - essentially just a deprecated module with an old implementation of Clock
  * twisted/test/proto_helpers.py - probably the most widely used helper module; the stuff it contains could be seriously better than it is, though

There's probably lots of duplication in individual test_*.py files as well.  This makes maintenance harder.  It makes writing new tests harder, since it's hard to find existing utilities and often we end up just re-writing them from scratch, usually with bugs.  There should be exactly one module in Twisted for this kind of code and all of our test utilities should be in it.
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