(devel) A note about unit tests moving forward
Mistakenly first posted to fedora-devel (doh!)...
I've switching "make test" to call unit tests via nose, which produces
some nicer output from the same test code.
To get nose, you'll need to:
# yum install nose
Nose can also be called with coverage if you uncomment that part of the
Makefile.
# easy_install coverage
While currently a lot of tests exist in tests/test.py the intent is for
new tests to live with the code, so that they have a greater hope of
being maintained when folks add features (since they will obviously be
in the same file).
For instance, XMLRPC tests will live in remote.py.
Nose allows for tests to be named "test_something" and it will find
functions of that form and see if any asserts in them fail.
For instance:
assert x == 2, "verify that the return code is two"
Another nice feature of nose is that when running "make test" the output
is a lot nicer, it will only show stdout/stderr for tests that actually
fail, so there's a lot less noise to sift through.
--Michael