5 testtools is a set of extensions to the Python standard library's unit testing
8 These extensions have been derived from years of experience with unit testing
9 in Python and come from many different sources.
15 If you would like to learn more about testtools, consult our documentation in
16 the 'doc/' directory. You might like to start at 'doc/overview.rst' or
17 'doc/for-test-authors.rst'.
23 This project is distributed under the MIT license and copyright is owned by
24 Jonathan M. Lange and the testtools authors. See LICENSE for details.
26 Some code in 'testtools/run.py' is taken from Python's unittest module, and is
27 copyright Steve Purcell and the Python Software Foundation, it is distributed
28 under the same license as Python, see LICENSE for details.
40 If you would like to use our undocumented, unsupported Twisted support, then
41 you will need Twisted.
43 If you want to use ``fixtures`` then you can either install fixtures (e.g. from
44 https://launchpad.net/python-fixtures or http://pypi.python.org/pypi/fixtures)
45 or alternatively just make sure your fixture objects obey the same protocol.
48 Bug reports and patches
49 -----------------------
51 Please report bugs using Launchpad at <https://bugs.launchpad.net/testtools>.
52 Patches can also be submitted via Launchpad, or mailed to the author. You can
53 mail the author directly at jml@mumak.net.
55 There's no mailing list for this project yet, however the testing-in-python
56 mailing list may be a useful resource:
58 * Address: testing-in-python@lists.idyll.org
59 * Subscription link: http://lists.idyll.org/listinfo/testing-in-python
65 testtools used to be called 'pyunit3k'. The name was changed to avoid
66 conflating the library with the Python 3.0 release (commonly referred to as
82 * Michael Hudson-Doyle