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Python Unit Testing Frameworks (v3)
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:date: 2005-11-02 00:12:19
:category: `Unit Testing in Python <index.html>`_

Ned Batchelder : Blog [`link <http://www.nedbatchelder.com/blog/index.html>`__ ] identifies no less than 6 unit testing
frameworks for Python [`link <http://www.nedbatchelder.com/blog/200510.html#e20051025T070731>`__ ] and [`link <http://www.nedbatchelder.com/blog/200411.html#e20041120T185622>`__ ].



TestGears
[`link <http://www.turbogears.com/testgears/>`__ ] is part of the TurboGears web
uber-framework. It provides automatic discovery of test functions, simplifies
suite development, and makes it easy to run tests zero configuration.  Kevin
Dangoor [`link <http://www.blueskyonmars.com/>`__ ] says he will deprecate this in favor of
Nose.  David Warnock [`link <http://42.blogs.warnock.me.uk/2005/10/turbogears_cont.html>`__ ] says something
similar.

TestOOB [`link <http://testoob.sourceforge.net/>`__ ]
(Testing Out Of [the] Box) provides for new styles of output (HTML and color
terminal), debugger launching, verbose asserts, parallel execution, and
command-line utility testing

nose [`link <http://somethingaboutorange.com/mrl/projects/nose/>`__ ] provides an alternate test discovery and
execution engine for unittest

unittest [`link <http://docs.python.org/lib/module-unittest.html>`__ ], formerly known as PyUnit [`link <http://pyunit.sourceforge.net/>`__ ]
(Thanks for the heads up, Tony [`link <http://www.haloscan.com/comments/slott/E20051105152154/#29209>`__ ])

doctest
[`link <http://docs.python.org/lib/module-doctest.html>`__ ]


py.test [`link <http://codespeak.net/py/current/doc/test.html>`__ ]



Michal
Watkins [`link <http://mikewatkins.net/>`__ ] adds  Sancho, a unit testing framework
[`link <http://www.mems-exchange.org/software/sancho/>`__ ].

Also,
ZOPE has test.py [`link <http://zopewiki.org/HowToRunZopeUnitTests>`__ ].  There is a derivative product, also, the
SchoolTool Test Runner [`link <http://svn.nuxeo.org/trac/pub/file/CalCore/trunk/test.py>`__ ].



Jeremy
Hylton's blog has some notes [`link <http://www.python.org/~jeremy/weblog/031014.html>`__ ] on unit testing, describing
test.py.

Ian Bicking also has a list of
complaints about the basic unittest interface [`link <http://blog.colorstudy.com/ianb/weblog/2003/10/10.html#P11>`__ ], many of which are answered by the
add-ons.