Testoob 1.15 released

I'm very happy to announce that after nearly 3 years Testoob sees another release.

Testoob is the advanced Python test runner and testing framework that spices up any existing unittest test suite.

Changes: Version 1.15 (Oct. 2009) adds better Python 2.6, IronPython, and Jython support, as well as test coverage improvements, better color support, and some new options and bugfixes. A full list of changes is available in the release announcement.

A big shout out to Ronnie van 't Westeinde - without him this version wouldn't have been possible.

Options to install:

• With easy_install: "easy_install -U testoob"
• One of the available packages

QUnit and URL query string

QUnit is a really nice testing framework for JavaScript (jQuery's own framework - here's the tutorial I used).

I wanted to put some tests in the following URL:

http://localhost/tests?param1¶m2

but my tests weren't running - I kept getting:

"0 tests of 0 failed."

I learned that QUnit uses the URL query string to filter which tests to run, and in this case I don't want it to.

QUnit will run any test that has a substring-match with one of the query parameters. So "&foo&" in the URL will match tests "food" and "buffoon", and I guess this also means that the empty string will match anything. I appended a '&' to the end of the URL:

http://localhost/tests?param1¶m2&

and now QUnit runs all my tests. Sweet!