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diff --git a/lib/testtools/NEWS b/lib/testtools/NEWS index 6588b8d438..5896b84c38 100644 --- a/lib/testtools/NEWS +++ b/lib/testtools/NEWS @@ -6,6 +6,22 @@ Changes and improvements to testtools_, grouped by release. NEXT ~~~~ + +0.9.12 +~~~~~~ + +This is a very big release. We've made huge improvements on three fronts: + 1. Test failures are way nicer and easier to read + 2. Matchers and ``assertThat`` are much more convenient to use + 3. Correct handling of extended unicode characters + +We've trimmed off the fat from the stack trace you get when tests fail, we've +cut out the bits of error messages that just didn't help, we've made it easier +to annotate mismatch failures, to compare complex objects and to match raised +exceptions. + +Testing code was never this fun. + Changes ------- @@ -14,6 +30,12 @@ Changes now deprecated. Please stop using it. (Jonathan Lange, #813460) +* ``assertThat`` raises ``MismatchError`` instead of + ``TestCase.failureException``. ``MismatchError`` is a subclass of + ``AssertionError``, so in most cases this change will not matter. However, + if ``self.failureException`` has been set to a non-default value, then + mismatches will become test errors rather than test failures. + * ``gather_details`` takes two dicts, rather than two detailed objects. (Jonathan Lange, #801027) @@ -30,12 +52,16 @@ Improvements * All public matchers are now in ``testtools.matchers.__all__``. (Jonathan Lange, #784859) -* assertThat output is much less verbose, displaying only what the mismatch +* ``assertThat`` can actually display mismatches and matchers that contain + extended unicode characters. (Jonathan Lange, Martin [gz], #804127) + +* ``assertThat`` output is much less verbose, displaying only what the mismatch tells us to display. Old-style verbose output can be had by passing ``verbose=True`` to assertThat. (Jonathan Lange, #675323, #593190) -* assertThat accepts a message which will be used to annotate the matcher. This - can be given as a third parameter or as a keyword parameter. (Robert Collins) +* ``assertThat`` accepts a message which will be used to annotate the matcher. + This can be given as a third parameter or as a keyword parameter. + (Robert Collins) * Automated the Launchpad part of the release process. (Jonathan Lange, #623486) |