[Twisted-Python] Global reactor unit tests in the Twisted test suite

[Phil Mayers]

On 11/01/2011 11:49 PM, Glyph wrote:

> of "real" reactors. New contributors sometimes say that they don't feel
> like the code is "really" being tested unless they're testing against
> the real implementation of something, and it may not be immediately
> obvious that testing against a not-real implementation is desirable in
> many cases. Much of it can just be copy/pasted from this thread :).

Without commenting on everything else in the thread - this realisation 
was something I came to late, and I feel it would have helped enormously 
if it had come earlier. So, +1 on convincing people to go for in-memory 
/ simulated transport/clock/etc.

But I'll note that most people I've seen crib from existing test code 
during the early phases of TDD, tutorials or not - and if most test code 
in Twisted uses the real reactor...