The Impatient Developer's Guide to Nose Plugins

Eric Promislow of ActiveState has been working with the nose unit-testing framework in order to hook it into the new version of Komodo IDE. Along the way he figured out how to write a nose plugin, and he's documented his work in this article. (Poor Eric misspelled my name as Brendan, but otherwise it's a great article! ;D )

I'm working hard right now on a game, but this information is cool enough that I could be persuaded to update kNose to use a nose plugin like Eric describes. However, Komodo 4.3 could very well obsolete my work. Are there enough kNose users out there that would like to see an update, or would you rather wait for the next version of Komodo and its unit testing support?

kNose 1.0 released

kNose is a free Komodo IDE/Edit extension for Python unit testing; it uses the nose unit testing framework written by Jason Pellerin.

kNose is available for download here, along with documentation I've provided on how to install and use it.

Hope you enjoy it!

A quick kNose update

Sorry, I promised to keep everyone updated, and I haven't been doing that.

I've finished working on expanding and collapsing the tree view and running tests in a background thread. I'm currently writing the code to display tooltips in the tree for any tests that had failures/errors. It's been hard to find out how to do this, because it's very hard to google for "tooltip treeview XUL" (and other combinations thereof) and get any meaningful results. However, I finally found some sample code to look at, and I'm hoping this doesn't take me very long.

I've noticed some small bugs in my parsing of nose's output results, and I also need to save some of the treeview settings inside of Komodo's preferences. Both of these "to do" items, however, are fairly insignificant.

My plan is to release it by the end of this week.