ZopeTestCaseWiki

Welcome to the ZopeTestCase Wiki!

The purpose of this Wiki is to collect information about design and usage of the ZopeTestCase package. I plan to keep it updated. Please do not use this Wiki for (extensive) discussions. Thanks.

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Documentation

• InstallationInstructions -- What the name implies.
• HowTo -- An overview of and introduction to ZTC.
• ReadMe -- Details on setting up your own test environment.
• ZopeEnvironment -- Assumptions ZTC makes about your Zope setup.
• PyUnit -- Documentation for Python's unittest module.
• IZopeTestCase -- The ZopeTestCase public interfaces.
• ApiReference -- ZopeTestCase API reference.
• SecurityTesting -- Details on default fixture and security API.
• FunctionalTesting -- Notes on the new functional testing features.
• PortalTestCase -- Overview of the PortalTestCase base class.
• ZopeProfiler -- How to use the built-in profiling support.
• TimeLines -- Sequence of things going on when a test is run.
• FrequentlyAskedQuestions -- With answers!
• TestRunnerComparison -- Document comparing available test runners.

CVS

• ZopeTestCase CVS is hosted by the Collective project on Sourceforge.

Related Tools

• TestRunner -- A test runner with INSTANCE_HOME support.
• CMFTestCase -- Add-on for testing CMF-based products and applications.

Related Reading

• Test Driven Development -- This and much more can be found in the c2 Wiki.
• Unit Testing Zope -- Slides of my talk at EuroPython 2003 (258k pdf).
• Unit Testing in Python -- Tom Bryan's presentation at PyCon 2003.
• Cactus -- A Java testing framework from the Jakarta project.

Products Using ZopeTestCase

• Plone 2.0 by the Plone Team
• Silva by Infrae (Thanks to Godefroid Chapelle)
• CPS 3.0 by Nuxeo
• Zwiki by Simon Michael
• ExternalFile and ZopeXMLMethods by Arielpartners
• ZQTI and QTIEditor by Upfront Systems
• DDBug Issue Tracker by Hiperlogica
• ReplaceSupport, DocFinderTab, and AcquisitionUnderstander
• ExtFile/ExtImage (1.2.0 and later)