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-# Test Suite
-
-Python-Markdown comes with a test suite which uses the [Nose][] testing
-framework.The test suite primarily serves to ensure that new bugs are not
-introduced as existing bugs are patched or new features are added. It also
-allows Python-Markdown to be tested with the tests from other implementations
-such as John Gruber's [Perl][] implementation or Michel Fortin's [PHP][]
-implementation.
-
-The test suite can be run by calling the `run_tests.py` command at the root of
-the distribution tarball or by calling the `nosetests` command directly. Either
-way, Nose will need to be installed on your system first (run `easy_install
-nose`). Any standard nosetests config options can be passed in on the command
-line (i.e.: verbosity level or use of a plugin like coverage).
-
-Additionally, a nicely formatted HTML report of all output is written to a
-temporary file in `tmp/test-output.html`. Open the file in a browser to view
-the report.
-
-The test suite contains three kinds of tests: Markdown Syntax Tests, Unit
-Tests, and Doc Tests.
-
-# Markdown Syntax Tests
-
-The Syntax Tests are in the various directories contained within the 'tests'
-directory of the packaged tarball. Each test consists of a matching pair of txt
-and html files. The txt file contains a snippet of Markdown source text
-formated for a specific syntax feature and the html file contains the expected
-HTML output of that snippet. When the test suite is run, each txt file is run
-through Markdown and the output is compared with the html file as a separate
-Unit Test.
-
-In fact, this is the primary reason for using Nose, it gives us an easy way to
-treat each of these tests as a separate unit test which is reported on
-separately. Additionally, with the help of a couple custom Nose plugins which
-are included with the Markdown Test Suite, we are able to get back an easy to
-read diff of the actual output compared to expected output when a test fails.
-
-Here is some sample output with a test that is failing because of some
-insignificant white space differences:
-
- $ ./run-tests.py
- ..........................................................M...........
- ............................SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
- SSSSSSSSSS.................S..........................................
- .........
- ======================================================================
- MarkdownSyntaxError: TestSyntax: "misc/lists3"
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- MarkdownSyntaxError: Output from "/home/waylan/code/python-markdown/te
- sts/misc/lists3.txt" failed to match expected output.
-
- --- /home/waylan/code/python-markdown/tests/misc/lists3.html
- +++ actual_output.html
- @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
- <ul>
- <li>blah blah blah
- -sdf asdf asdf asdf asdf
- -asda asdf asdfasd</li>
- + sdf asdf asdf asdf asdf
- + asda asdf asdfasd</li>
- </ul>
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- Ran 219 tests in 7.698s
-
- FAILED (MarkdownSyntaxError=1, SKIP=53)
-
-Note that 219 tests were run, one of which failed with a `MarkdownSyntaxError`.
-Only Markdown Syntax Tests should fail with a `MarkdownSyntaxError`. Nose then
-formats the error reports for `MarkdownSyntaxError`s so that they only include
-useful information. Namely the txt file which failed and a unified diff showing
-the failure. Without the plugin, you would also get a useless traceback showing
-how the code stepped through the test framework, but nothing about how Markdown
-actually ran.
-
-If, on the other hand, a Syntax Test failed because some other exception gets
-raised by either Markdown or the test suite, then that would be reported as per
-a normal unit test failure with the appropriate traceback for debugging
-purposes.
-
-### Syntax Test Config Settings
-
-The other thing to note about the above example is that 53 tests were skipped.
-Those tests have been explicitly configured to be skipped as they are primarily
-tests from either PHP or Perl which are known to fail for various reasons. In
-fact, a number of different configuration settings can be set for any specific
-test.
-
-Each Syntax Test directory contains a `test.cfg` file in the ini format. The
-file may contain a separate section for each txt file named exactly as the file
-is named minus the file extension (i.e.; the section for a test in `foo.txt`
-would be `[foo]`). All settings are optional. Default settings for the entire
-directory can be set under the `[DEFAULT]` section (must be all caps). Any
-settings under a specific file section will override anything in the
-`[DEFAULT]` section for that specific test only.
-
-Below are each of the config options available and the defaults used when they
-are not explicitly set.
-
-* `normalize`: Switches whitespace normalization of the test output on or off.
- Defaults to `0` (off). Note: This requires that [uTidylib] be installed on
- the system. Otherwise the test will be skipped, regardless of any other
- settings.
-* `skip`: Switches skipping of the test on and off. Defaults to `0` (off).
-* `input_ext`: Extension of input file. Defaults to `.txt`. Useful for tests
- from other implementations.
-* `output_ext`: Extension of output file. Defaults to `.html`. Useful for tests
- from other implementations.
-* Any keyword arguement accepted my Markdown. If not set, Markdown's defaults
- are used.
-
-## Unit Tests
-
-All Unit Tests shipped with Python-Markdown are standard Python Unit Tests and
-are currently all contained in `tests/test_apis.py`. Standard discovery methods
-are used to find and run the tests. Therefor, when writing new tests, those
-standards and naming conventions should be followed.
-
-## Doc Tests
-
-Some Python-Markdown extensions also include standard Python doctests, which
-are discovered and run in the standard manner; one Unit Test for each file.
-
-
-[Nose]: http://somethingaboutorange.com/mrl/projects/nose/
-[Perl]: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/
-[PHP]: http://michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/
-[uTidylib]: http://utidylib.berlios.de/