[Twisted-Python] Re: [Twisted-commits] r15100 - So I really do want this stuff
jml at mumak.net
Sat Nov 12 16:34:49 EST 2005
On 13/11/05, James Y Knight <foom at fuhm.net> wrote:
> On Nov 11, 2005, at 5:11 PM, Jonathan Lange wrote:
> >> This seems to beg the question:
> >> Why?
> >> So, consider it begged :)
> > Because I'm going to implement setUpClass using this stuff.
> > Why?
> > Because the current implementation is horrible, as discussed.
> Maybe this is a stupid question, but I'm confused as to why the
> implementation isn't straightforward, something along the lines of
> the following:
> for each module to test:
> for each class that is a subclass of TestCase in module:
> testCase = class()
> for each method in testCase:
> Now I now it has to be somewhat more complicated, due to error
> handling, deferred handling, suppress, etc, but it does seem like
> that would be the outline...can it not be?
The short answer: An instance of a TestCase subclass represents a single test.
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