Camel case used for mthods' names

[gurunars]

Check the following paragraph ​http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.2/topics/testing/#django.test.TestCase.fixtures

For example, the code does not look consistent when you use def testFluffyAnimals instead of def test_fluffy_animals.

[Simon Meers]

I imagine this is partly because of unittest's camel-case convention for setUp and tearDown -- it would look inconsistent with those otherwise. Though having said that I write my own test_method_names_like_this_too. Probably doesn't really matter. Other opinions?

[Karen Tracey]

Replying to DrMeers:

Yes, I expect setUp and tearDown are likely responsible for the sometimes-used camel case in tests. So long as we are consistent within a class I think it is fine, camel case test method names are perfectly valid and sometimes used as the convention.

[Simon Meers]

For the sake of consistency, one could argue that test_send_email further down that page should actually be converted to camel case, but it really doesn't matter. As Karen mentioned, consistency within classes is the main issue.