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authorJohannes Gijsbers <jlg@dds.nl>2004-11-07 16:02:07 (GMT)
committerJohannes Gijsbers <jlg@dds.nl>2004-11-07 16:02:07 (GMT)
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Clarify that it's not necessary to subclass from TestCase to create a
test case. As Jeremy put it: "subclassing is an implementation technique, not a type declaration".
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@@ -35,7 +35,8 @@ starting a server process.
A \dfn{test case} is the smallest unit of testing. It checks for a
specific response to a particular set of inputs. PyUnit provides a
base class, \class{TestCase}, which may be used to create new test
-cases.
+cases. You may provide your own implementation that does not subclass
+from \class{TestCase}, of course.
\term{test suite}
A \dfn{test suite} is a collection of test cases, test suites, or