Results Comparison in PyFIT Fixtures

June 26, 2006 by Isaac

I'm not sure if this is the intended behavior or not, but I found a "feature" in PyFIT that had me smashing the keyboard with my face. According to the PyFIT documentation you should be able to create a table like this:

|TestClass|
|InputString    |OutputNum    |
|Hello World    |>10       |
|Python is cool!|1 < _ < 100|

The value returned by the OutputNum method of TestClass should result in a comparison and the cell being highlighted green or red depending on a pass or fail. What the documents don't seem to point out is that doing the comparison on a field declared as an Integer in the _typeDict results in strange looking errors. After much frustration, checking and rechecking my syntax, I tried changing that number to a Float and it worked. So, Floats can be compared and have ranges and Integers can't.

Category Posted in Python, Software Testing