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Nose is a utility ….

nose introduction

This post has several examples, and covers fixtures, test discovery, asserts, running options, and running unittests and doctests.

Nose’s tagline is “nose extends unittest to make testing easier”.
It’s is a fairly well known python unit test framework, and can run doctests, unittests, and “no boilerplate” tests.

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Poll Results: test frameworks

Well, the poll I put up a couple weeks ago has 125 votes last I checked.

Results

  1. nose, 42 votes
  2. pytest, 32 votes
  3. unittest, 29 votes
  4. doctest, 18 votes
  5. other, 4 votes

The other votes were:

  • twisted trial (also mentioned in a comment)
  • pyVows
  • attest
  • zope.testing

Commentary

This is mostly what I expected.

So I think I’m on the Continue reading

Poll: Which test frameworks are you most interested in?

I’m planning on covering doctest, unittest, nose, and py.test.
However, I’d like to know if my guess at interest level is right.
Also curious which framework(s) I should spend the most time on, and if I’ve missed some important framework.
I’m using a free polldaddy account, so I believe only the first 200 will be counted.

Thanks for taking the time with this.