Pikzie Testing Framework

CategoryTesting: TestingFramework for the PythonLanguage

• http://pikzie.sourceforge.net/

Pikzie is an easy to write/debug Unit Testing Framework for Python.

Pikzie provides the following features that are lacked in unittest.py included in the standard Python distribution:

• Pythonic API. (Pikzie followes PEP 8 -- Style Guide for Python Code: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/)
• a lot of assertions.
• outputs result with useful format for debugging. (especially Emacs user)
• colorized output.
• supports tagging metadata to each test.

An example test:

 import pikzie
 from stack import Stack

 class TestStack?(pikzie.TestCase):
     def setup(self):
         self.stack = Stack()

     def test_new_stack(self):
         stack = Stack()
         self.assert_true(stack.empty())

     def test_push(self):
         self.assert_equal(0, len(self.stack))
         self.stack.push(100)
         self.assert_equal(1, len(self.stack))
         self.assert_false(self.stack.empty())

     def test_pop(self):
         self.stack.push(10)
         self.stack.push(20)
         self.stack.push(30)

         self.assert_equal(3, len(self.stack))
         self.assert_equal(30, self.stack.pop())
         self.assert_equal(2, len(self.stack))
         self.assert_equal(20, self.stack.pop())
         self.assert_equal(1, len(self.stack))

         self.stack.push(40)
         self.assert_equal(2, len(self.stack))
         self.assert_equal(40, self.stack.pop())
         self.assert_equal(1, len(self.stack))
         self.assert_equal(10, self.stack.pop())
         self.assert_equal(0, len(self.stack))
         self.assert_true(self.stack.empty())

     @pikzie.bug(1234)
     def test_push_string(self):
         self.stack.push("string can be pushed")
         self.assert_equal("string can be pushed", self.pop())

• Self test: http://pikzie.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pikzie/trunk/test/