Here’s what I did for getting a nice testing frontend into Zope 2.

1. Copy test.py from Zope 3 into INSTANCE_HOME.

2. Copy framework.py from ZopeTestCase into INSTANCE_HOME.

3. Add the following to test.py:

   if __name__ == '__main__':
      execfile(os.path.join(sys.path[0], 'framework.py'))
   

4. Add the following to framework.py, just after import
   Testing:

   import Zope
   

Now, you can run the unittests using test.py and all the
facilities that you get from it. As an example, here’s what I have in
the makefile of one of my products:

SOFTWARE_HOME=~/src/zope/2_7/lib/python
INSTANCE_HOME=~/src/instance/shellex
PYTHON="/usr/bin/python"

test_all :

        export INSTANCE_HOME=${INSTANCE_HOME}; \
        export SOFTWARE_HOME=${SOFTWARE_HOME}; \
        cd ${INSTANCE_HOME} && ${PYTHON} test.py --all -vpT \
        --libdir=Products 'CMFMember|Calendaring|PluggableDiscussion'

Here, -v is for verbose, -p is for showing progress,
-T is for generating trace module stats. Refer to the source of
test.py for more command line options. The nice thing here, IMHO,
is to be able to specify a regular expression for matching modules
which tests should be run, and of course, the progress line is simply
amazing :)