[Soc-coordination] Needed help for Gsoc2013 Project ideas

[Paul Tagliamonte]

On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Abhishek Singh <
abhishekkumarsingh.cse at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Ansgar,
>
> It's great to hear from you. I apologize for my late reply, have been
> since couple of days.
>
> >There are already a few unit tests, but many parts of dak need access to
> >the repository and the database.  Just a random example: when dak
> >processes an upload to unstable it makes sure the upload has a higher
> >version number than already present in unstable.  We currently have no
> >way of testing such code automatically.
>
> >This is where the Summer of Code project comes in: we want you to write
> >a framework for such tests and also to implement some.
>
> I think we could use mock tests for unit testing. May be we can use pytest
> frame work for mock testing. Pytest provides several advantages such as it
> helps in reducing boilerplate (this is area where funcargs plays a very
> important role) and makes writing tests much more pythonic and easier.
>

Not that I have any say, but nosetests are quite common and very idiomatic
to Python :)

Usually nosetests + tox is my preferred method anyway!


>
> cheers,
> Abhishek
>
>
>
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