On Friday 24 January 2014 15:56:10 thierry bordaz wrote: > Do we really need to get rid of __main__ when using > nose/py.test ? Obviously you can take it. I would just avoid noise in testing. Moreover they could leave your environment dirty: eg. if a test fails it doesn't run the teardown function. > I do not understand how you can test 'list' if you have not > 'create' mapping_tree before. I would have created the list_test requirements in the setup phase. (in the link below I created two different backends for two different test cases) https://github.com/ioggstream/dsadmin/blob/merge_lib389/tests/replica_test.py#L54 While I started with dependent tests on dsadmin, I spent some time to change that approach because small changes caused whole testsuites to fail and it was difficult to find where the error was (in the setup? in the test first code? in the second test code? in the library code? ) Peace, R. -- Roberto Polli Community Manager Babel - a business unit of Par-Tec S.p.A. - http://www.babel.it T: +39.06.9826.9651 M: +39.340.652.2736 F: +39.06.9826.9680 P.zza S.Benedetto da Norcia, 33 - 00040 Pomezia (Roma) CONFIDENZIALE: Questo messaggio ed i suoi allegati sono di carattere confidenziale per i destinatari in indirizzo. E' vietato l'inoltro non autorizzato a destinatari diversi da quelli indicati nel messaggio originale. Se ricevuto per errore, l'uso del contenuto e' proibito; si prega di comunicarlo al mittente e cancellarlo immediatamente. -- 389-devel mailing list 389-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/389-devel