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On 2/6/2012 7:24 AM, Frank Becker wrote:
> On 06.02.12 01:58, Matej Cepl wrote:

>> I have just finished listening to the FLOSS Weekly podcast #200
>> (http://twit.tv/show/floss-weekly/200) on autotest, where I've learned=

>> about the existence of TAP (http://testanything.org/). A standardizati=
on
>> of testing seems to be so obviously The Right Thing=E2=84=A2, that it =
is strange
>> that I don't see much related movement in the Python world (I know onl=
y

TAP is not about 'standardization of testing' but standardized=20
communication of test results between test modules and test harness.=20
Python's two stdlib test packages include both test-writing methods and=20
a test harness. They are compatible in the sense that doctests can be=20
run within the unittest framework.

>> about http://git.codesimply.com/?p=3DPyTAP.git;a=3Dsummary or
>> git://git.codesimply.com/PyTAP.git, which seems to be very very simple=

>> and only producer).

I presume PyTAP does something like converting (or rather, wrapping)=20
output from unittests to (or rather, within) the TAP format, which=20
includes wrapping in YAMLish. Or it provides alternate versions of the=20
numerous AssertXxx functions in unittest. This is useful for someone=20
running Python tests within a TAP harness, but not otherwise.

>> What am I missing? Why nobody seems to care about joining TAP standard=
?

The 'TAP standard' is what the Perl TAP module does. There is a=20
pre-draft for an IETF standard. You could ask why Perl people don't care =

about joining the unittest 'standard'.

--=20
Terry Jan Reedy