[Chandler-dev] CATS3

[Mikeal Rogers]

> Unless you also remove wx from the tests this will not work for  
> rt.py as it needs to run on the tinderboxes and they do not have wx  
> installed.

You can import the run_recorded module and run the get_test_modules  
which imports all of the test modules without wx or chandler being  
installed.

>
> When we were talking about this in the #QA channel on IRC I thought  
> you were talking about a simple python file to just contain the  
> tests to run or exclude and not about adding metadata to the tests  
> themselves.

The way we already had it was using the test metadata, we were  
talking about modifying it because it wasn't compatible with rt.py,  
my patch fixes that and rt can use the current test collector.

> Wouldn't this be simple to do as a tests.py file that is pure basic  
> python that can be loaded by both chandler and rt and just contains  
> an exclude list and then does a simple dir walk?

I had a variety of reasons for going this route when I originally  
wrote it. The primary reason is that it's a lot cleaner to keep data  
about the tests in the tests. You can see all the changes and history  
of a test by looking at the svn history for that file, rather than  
having all the exclusion semantics in another file which you also  
have to keep track of.

I don't know what "pure basic python" means. This is all python, all  
the ways we run a test can use the same code, it is more dynamic than  
the old way but it's written and working and, in my opinion, easier  
to maintain.

-Mikeal
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