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+++ b/test/runtests.py	Fri Mar 09 18:23:09 2007 +0100
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+# Copyright (C) 2007 by Intevation GmbH
+# Authors:
+# Bernhard Herzog <bh@intevation.de>
+#
+# This program is free software under the GPL (>=v2)
+# Read the file COPYING coming with the software for details.
+
+"""
+Main entry point for the test suite.
+
+Just run this file as a python script to execute all tests
+"""
+
+import os
+import sys
+import unittest
+import optparse
+
+test_dir = os.path.dirname(__file__)
+sys.path.append(os.path.join(test_dir, os.pardir))
+
+def find_test_modules(dirname, package = None):
+    """Return a list the names of the test modules in the directory dirname
+
+    The return value is a list of names that can be passed to
+    unittest.defaultTestLoader.loadTestsFromNames.  Each name of the
+    list is the name of a pure python module, one for each file in
+    dirname whose name starts with 'test' and ends with '.py'.
+
+    The optional parameter package should be the name of the python
+    package whose directory is dirname.  If package is given all names
+    in the returned list will be prefixed with package and a dot.
+    """
+    if package:
+        prefix = package + "."
+    else:
+        prefix = ""
+
+    suffix = ".py"
+    return [prefix + name[:-len(suffix)]
+            for name in os.listdir(dirname)
+                if name.startswith("test") and name.endswith(suffix)]
+
+
+def main():
+    """Run all the tests in the test suite"""
+
+    parser = optparse.OptionParser()
+    parser.set_defaults(verbosity=1)
+    parser.add_option("-v", "--verbose", action="store_const", const=2,
+                      dest="verbosity")
+    opts, rest = parser.parse_args()
+
+    # Build the list of test names.  If names were given on the command
+    # line, run exactly those.  Othwerwise build a default list of
+    # names.
+    if rest:
+        names = rest
+    else:
+        # All Python files starting with 'test' in the current directory
+        # and some directories in Extensions contain test cases.
+        # FIXME: It should be possible to run runtests.py even when not in
+        # the test directory
+        names = find_test_modules(test_dir)
+    suite = unittest.defaultTestLoader.loadTestsFromNames(names)
+    runner = unittest.TextTestRunner(verbosity=opts.verbosity)
+    result = runner.run(suite)
+    sys.exit(not result.wasSuccessful())
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()