[Avocado-devel] Avocado on its way to being self testable

[Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues]

+1, great stuff!

On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 5:51 AM Cleber Rosa <crosa at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I'd like to bring the following pull request to your attention:
>
>  https://github.com/avocado-framework/avocado/pull/996
>
> It's titled "Safe Loader: a second, more abstract and reusable
> implementation [v0]", but the most interesting things about it
> are:
>
> * It contains the foundations to find other types of Python based
> tests, including standard unittests
>
> * It includes a (contrib) script that can be used in conjunction
> with the "external runner" feature and allows Avocado to run
> unittests *right now*, including its own tests.
>
> Being self testable was one of the original goals of Avocado. While
> this makes *me* quite happy, I believe matters to the whole community
> of users and developers because it will bring:
>
> * Increase of test scope, and thus quality, by being self testable
>
> * Wider range of test that will be able to be run directly by Avocado
>
> Imagine being able to combine in a single "acceptance job" your own
> unittests, custom tests written in any language (aka SIMPLE tests)
> and even virtualization (Avocado-VT) tests. Then benefit from all
> of the niceties of the Avocado test runner for all of them.
>
> So, hang tight, because that's where we're headed to.
>
> Cheers,
> Cleber Rosa.
>
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