A simpler test framework? (was: Re: The 'easy' tag)

[Gioele Barabucci]

Martin Pool wrote:
> I thought of one specific thing we could do, which is to support
> doctest-like black box tests, so you could write literally:
> 
>   % echo foo > foo
>   % bzr add
>   added foo
>
> So I guess it comes down to this: if you could write tests in this
> style, would you or other people actually write new tests?
Yes, that would be exactly what I need.

I test the code I write, I just don't have the time to write the tests in 
the way bzrlib wants them. These doctest-like tests would very very useful; 
I could write tests like that right now.

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Gioele Barabucci <gioele at svario.it>