Setting Up Plone for Testing

Reading

• Functional and system tests with zope.testbrowser

Steps

• Get Plone with Five
• Needs Five version 1.4.1, which is more recent than the one shipped with the Plone 2.5 + Five bundle, so ... http://codespeak.net/z3/five/release/Five-1.4.1.tgz
  • Five 1.4.1 is gone, evidently replaced by 1.4.2 (compatible with Zope 2.9) and also now a 1.5.1 (for Zope 2.10). See: http://codespeak.net/z3/five/
• For zope testing it is very convenient to have all your products on one path, both the standard and third-party.
• Make a backup of everything in Data/Products
• Move the contents of Data/Products (folders and files) into Zope/lib/python/Products
• The python installation that comes with Plone may be missing the python "test" package, which contains dependencies for the testbrowser in Five
• Quick fix is to copy the Python24\Lib4\test directory from a standard Python 2.4 install into Plone2\Python\Lib