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This unit testing framework, dubbed 'PyUnit' by convention, is a Python language version of JUnit. JUnit was written by smart cookies Kent Beck and Erich Gamma, and is, in turn, a Java version of Kent's Smalltalk testing framework. Each is the de facto standard unit testing framework for its respective language, and therefore both are a strong basis for an effective and elegant Python framework.
10th June 2013 -- Serbo-Croatian translation of the PyUnit documentation by Anja Skrba from Webhostinggeeks.com
4th December 2007 -- Chinese translation of the PyUnit documentation submitted by Bing Yuan
22nd June 2004 -- Double-clickable application bundle for OS-X by Kevin Walzer
19th July 2002 -- Cocoa test GUI for Mac OS X users from Dinu Gherman
10th December 2001 -- Japanese translation of the PyUnit documentation submitted by Suzuki Hisao
6th August 2001 -- the much-delayed stand-alone release of the PyUnit version bundled with Python 2.1
June 2001 -- Mark Pilgrim has written an amazing chapter about unit testing using PyUnit as part of his online Python book "Dive Into Python".
28th March 2001 -- PyUnit featured in Stephen Figgins' article 'Extreme Python' on the O'Reilly Network
23rd March 2001 -- PyUnit is included in the Python Standard Library as of today's Python 2.1 release. More information about this can be found in this posting to the pyunit-interest mailing list.
"PyUnit is cool. It's helping us find lots of bugs." -- Jim Fulton, Digital Creations
"I am really impressed with the effect of unit testing on the quality of my code since I started using PyUnit about two months ago. I know that the extra effort has saved me literally days of looking for subtle bugs. Writing the unit tests first is also a very good innoculation against over-engineering." -- Terrel Shumway
Some quick facts about PyUnit:-
Update: Unless you're stuck in the year 2000, PyUnit is in your Python standard library as module unittest
.
The framework is currently two Python source modules (i.e. no messy installation) and is packaged for download together with documentation and examples. The documentation provides a cookbook for writing tests, usage guidelines, known issues, future plans, and links to sources of related information.
unittest
and
unittestgui
(generated using
htmldoc
)
Feedback and discussion via the mailing list is encouraged. This low-volume list is a good place to discuss PyUnit, to ask others about their practises, and to share your wisdom.
Please note that the PythonWin IDE and Tkinter do not co-exist happily. This
means the PyUnit GUI should not be run from within PythonWin, otherwise a
crash is possible. Instead, run it separately using the standard
python.exe
or pythonw.exe
, or by double-clicking
on unittestgui.py
in Explorer.
(Of course, using the text mode of PyUnit from PythonWin will work just fine.)
Some known projects and groups reportedly using PyUnit are:
Recent mentions of PyUnit:
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