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September 17, 2005

Annoucing TestGears 0.2 unittest extension

by Kevin Dangoor

Last month, I introuced Testido, a unittest extension that removes the need to write TestSuites by hand and simplifies some testing. To be in line with TurboGears, for which Testido was originally created, the package has been renamed TestGears.

Here are the changes between Testido 0.1 and TestGears 0.2:

* unittest.TestCase instances are collected regardless of whether their names begin with “test”. (Thanks to Robert Brewer for the report.)
* Now calls setup_module(module) and teardown_module(module) as in py.test.

September 17, 2005

Announcing TurboGears web megaframework (Python)

by Kevin Dangoor

TurboGears brings together four major pieces to create an easy to install, easy to use web megaframework. It covers everything from front end (MochiKit JavaScript for the browser, Kid for templates in Python) to the controllers (CherryPy) to
the back end (SQLObject).

The TurboGears project is focused on providing documentation and integration with these tools without losing touch with the communities that already exist around those tools.

TurboGears is easy to use for a wide range of web applications.

To get a quick idea of what TurboGears is like, take a look at the 20 Minute Wiki tutorial and screencast. The total screencast with brief intro and conclusion did take a little over 23 minutes, but it’s close to 20 minutes :)

A big thanks to Remi Delon, Ian Bicking, Bob Ippolito, Ryan Tomayko, Phillip Eby and the many other contributors who have provided all of these great tools.

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