[Scons-dev] Tests and assert

Bill Deegan bill at baddogconsulting.com
Sun Jan 10 13:29:39 EST 2016


+1 on moving to use only one test framework.

Should we do this work in default and then have you merge across?

Thoughts on which is the better framework? Or will that become a religious
war?


On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 9:51 AM, Russel Winder <russel at winder.org.uk> wrote:

> Many of the SCons tests are a bit of a mess in one respect: unittest is
> being used as a framework but many of the tests use the python assert
> statement.
>
> Surely if using unittest the unittest test methods should be used, and
> if the Python assert statement is to be used then PyTest should be used
> as the test framework?
>
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