[Twisted-Python] trial (unit test) naming convention or obligation?
Gabriel Rossetti
mailing_lists at evotex.ch
Fri Mar 7 09:11:27 EST 2008
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
More information about the Twisted-Python
mailing list