zope.testing

Zope testing helpers


Keywords
zope, testing, doctest, RENormalizing, OutputChecker, timeout, logging, maintained
License
ZPL-2.1
Install
pip install zope.testing==4.6.1

Documentation

zope.testing

Latest Version Documentation Status

This package provides a number of testing frameworks.

For complete documentation, see https://zopetesting.readthedocs.io

cleanup

Provides a mixin class for cleaning up after tests that make global changes.

See zope.testing.cleanup

formparser

An HTML parser that extracts form information.

This is intended to support functional tests that need to extract information from HTML forms returned by the publisher.

See zope.testing.formparser

loggingsupport

Support for testing logging code

If you want to test that your code generates proper log output, you can create and install a handler that collects output.

See zope.testing.loggingsupport

loghandler

Logging handler for tests that check logging output.

See zope.testing.loghandler

module

Lets a doctest pretend to be a Python module.

See zope.testing.module

renormalizing

Regular expression pattern normalizing output checker. Useful for doctests.

See zope.testing.renormalizing

server

Provides a simple HTTP server compatible with the zope.app.testing functional testing API. Lets you interactively play with the system under test. Helpful in debugging functional doctest failures.

Python 2 only

See zope.testing.server

setupstack

A simple framework for automating doctest set-up and tear-down.

See zope.testing.setupstack

wait

A small utility for dealing with timing non-determinism

See zope.testing.wait

doctestcase

Support for defining doctests as methods of unittest.TestCase classes so that they can be more easily found by test runners, like nose, that ignore test suites.

See zope.testing.doctestcase

Getting started developing zope.testing

zope.testing uses tox. To start, install tox using pip install tox. Now, run tox to run the zope.testing test suite.