[py-dev] Creating test skeleton automatically from modules

[Edvard Majakari]

Hi,

I wrote a simple program which uses Python's compiler module to parse given
set of modules and writes a py.test unit test skeleton for each
module. Currently it is not too clever, mostly because I don't have very clear
ideas how unit testing should be done. However, it does create code for
automatically generating test methods :)

Say, if you have module bar and therein method named foo, pytestgen will
automatically create 

TestBar:

  ...

  def test_foo(self):

      known_values(,)

      for arg1, arg2, expected in known_values:
          yield self.foo, arg1, arg2, expected

  def foo(self, arg1, arg2, expectd):
 
      assert bar.foo(arg1, arg2) == expected


I intend to develop the program further, hopefully integrate it to Eclipse
pydev plugin :)

If you're interested in trying it out, see

http://majakari.net/dl/pytestgen-0.11.tar.bz2

It's not too advanced (yet), but I already use it myself for my own purposes.

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