i am trying to develop a test runner in python

Any pointers ? Suggestions ? Opinions ?

I am thinking here is a draft specification:

1. Can run individual test methods
2. Can run a single Test Class
3. Rsult in XML
4. Result in HTML
5. Dry-run
6. Calculate and display time taken by each test case, and overall time.
7. Timeout for test cases
8. TAP type test results
9. Log Levels
10. C开发者_开发技巧reate Skeleton test cases
11. Coverage
12. Be able to run on a remote host (maybe)
13. Test Reports
14. Command line Help (--help)

Now, where do i start ?

Have you seen nose or py.test? Those projects implement a lot of the features that you describe. It might be easier to write an extension for one of those projects rather than starting from scratch.

There's also green. I wrote it after I got frustrated with nose refusing to accept my pull requests to fix bugs, among other reasons.