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Twisted Trial
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:date: 2005-12-15 17:10:15
:category: `Unit Testing in Python <index.html>`_

Trial is not really a stand-alone unit test
framework.  It is an extension to unittest focused on the testing needs for the
Twisted framework.



The Trial how-to
[`link <http://twistedmatrix.com/projects/core/documentation/howto/testing.html>`__ ] has some information.  More valuable,
perhaps are the API documents [`link <http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/current/api/twisted.trial.html>`__ ]. 




Because of the asynchronous nature of
Twisted, the Fixture pattern has a rather complex relationship with the Twisted
Reactor.  Also, since Twisted is a framework, not a single application,
components are optional, and the TestSuite pattern is implemented with
considerably more flexibility.