Python testing goodies

Just found out that there's a PPA with the latest releases of a whole bunch of Python testing goodies, including:

• testtools - Extensions to unittest that make real extensions possible
• testresources - Safely re-use expensive resources in tests without paying massive set-up costs
• subunit - Manipulate, exchange and analyze test results without writing code
• testscenarios - Run the same tests against many different implementations

If you are running Ubuntu 9.10 or later, then sudo add-apt-repository ppa:subunit will add it to your apt sources.

We're starting to grow a lot of useful, small testing tools that become even more useful when combined. I really like the "small pieces, loosely joined" approach, but sometimes that can make deployment & dependency management a colossal pain. Happily, Ubuntu, Rob and Launchpad PPAs to the rescue.