[Twisted-Python] the right way of unit testing protocols

[Itamar Shtull-Trauring]

On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 14:07:10 +0300
Tommi Virtanen <tv at twistedmatrix.com> wrote:

> 	Opening TCP sockets in unit tests is just not _unit_ testing
> 	in my book. Please don't do it in unit tests. It just makes it
> 	harder to run your unit tests in varying environments. (Who
> 	says I allow you to bind to port 1234? Who says it's free?
> 	Who says I allow you to listen *at all*?)

Most of Twisted's unittests listen on 0 and then figure out which port
was bound to. 

> 	Also, you should not be testing just interoperability between
> 	*your* client and *your* server, but interoperability of your
> 	server with a "standard", and interoperability of your client
> 	with a "standard". For that, I prefer doing something like
> 	this:

Also a very good idea, but doing both is better than just one. The more
tests the better.

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