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[Python-Dev] built-in Python test runner (was: Python Language Summit at PyCon: Agenda)

Donald Stufft donald.stufft at gmail.com
Tue Mar 5 08:11:44 CET 2013 
On Tuesday, March 5, 2013 at 2:02 AM, Lennart Regebro wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 1:41 AM, Robert Collins
> <robertc at robertcollins.net (mailto:robertc at robertcollins.net)> wrote:
> > So that is interesting, but its not sufficient to meet the automation
> > need Barry is calling out, unless all test suites can be run by
> > 'python -m unittest discover' with no additional parameters [and a
> > pretty large subset cannot].
> > 
> 
> 
> But can they be changed so they are? That's gotta be the important bit.
> 
> What's needed here is not a tool that can run all unittests in
> existence, but an official way for automated tools to run tests, with
> the ability for any test and test framework to hook into that, so that
> you can run any test suite automatically from an automated tool. The,
> once that mechanism has been identified/implemented, we need to tell
> everybody to do this.
> 
> I don't care much what that mechanism is, but I think the easiest way
> to get there is to tell people to extend distutils with a test command
> (or use Distribute) and perhaps add such a command in 3.4 that will do
> the unittest discover thingy. I remember looking into zope.testrunner
> hooking into that mechanism as well, but I don't remember what the
> outcome was.
> 
> 

Doesn't setuptools/distribute already have a setup.py test command? That
seems like the easiest way forward? 
> 
> //Lennart
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