3 percent of Python codebases we checked had silently failing unit tests

Re:3 percent of Python codebases we checked had silently fai... by charcircuit on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @07:42AM (#30359278)

Does unittest cause an exception when the second argument isn't a string? That would catch some of these I'd imagine.

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Re:3 percent of Python codebases we checked had silently fai... by lozenge on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @09:28AM (#30360365)

They should make `msg` a keyword-only argument on all the TestCase.assert* statements. It wouldn't be the first breaking change of this type.

Searching for announced breaking changes about arguments to Python included functions...

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Re:3 percent of Python codebases we checked had silently fai... by rikatee on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @07:46AM (#30359314)

it does not, it just prints them out in the console

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