[ckan-dev] RFC: use oktest for ckan

[Toby Dacre]

On 18 September 2012 21:48, Dominik Moritz <domoritz at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi CKAN devs,
>
> I'm currently working on integration tests for CKAN. Before that I worked
> on the datastore and wrote quite a few tests. Testing takes a lot of time
> and the syntax and fixture injection is not simple. In my Summer of Code
> Projekt and other project at university, I used Oktest and would like to
> show you the advantages.
>
> List of Features/ Advantages:
>
> * Full backwards compatible, you don't have to use it.
> * Easy to install and setup (pip install oktest, import, done)
> * Works with the current testing environment
> * Shorter syntax and easier to read syntax
> * Better errors with diffs[1]
> * Tests for expected errors
> * Simple type checking and file path checking
> * Test decorator for better naming of tests (I actually wrote better test
> names after I started using oktest)
> * MIT License
> * The name Oktest sounds like Okfn. We could tell people its actually the
> "open knowledge test" ;-)
>
> If that sounds mouthwatering wait until you see the syntax. It's quite
> nice [2]
> You want to see some code. No problem. Here is a rest api wrapper test [3]
> and a simple pylons app test [4] that I've written with Oktest.
>
> Cheers,
> Dominik
>
> [1]
> AssertionError: 'foo' == 'bar' : failed.
> --- expected
> +++ actual
> @@ -1 +1 @@
> -bar
> +foo
>
> instead of:
>
> AssertionError
>

Hmm,

interesting personally I dont like the syntax it looks a bit to
un-pythonic  is ok a function or a keyword? it looks like it's pretending
to be a keyword when it's a function also redefining _(...) repeatedly for
the tests seems evil

the output looks like it could be nicer what is it like with differences in
dicts as that is the main thing that is currently problematic although we
could create a nice dict_diff helper for that.

generally the tests do need a massive overhaul in my opinion so options are
good

I don't have any major objections just observations

cheers

>
> [2] http://www.kuwata-lab.com/oktest/oktest-py_users-guide.html
> [3] https://github.com/domoritz/popit-python/blob/master/test.py
> [4] https://github.com/domoritz/Professors/blob/master/profs/tests.py
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