I'd like to work on this for the SoC2015. My questions being given a full-time commitment to this how long would something like this take?

Is there a list of all the functions and modules categorized into either your step 1 or step 2 categories?

Where are the current unittest located?

@Amertz08 I would anticipate that this would take about 2 or 3 weeks of full-time work, but I'm a bad estimator of other people's time budgets. The modules are in the zenmap/ directory under zenmapGUI, zenmapCore, and radialnet. The existing unittest-compatible tests are discovered and run with zenmap/tests/run_tests.py.

Not very useful, but I got this failure

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "run_tests.py", line 15, in <module>
    start_dir=glob.glob("build/lib.*")[0],
IndexError: list index out of range
make: *** [zenmap_check] Error 1

The problem is that the build directory doesn't exist.
Assuming that zenmap isn't enabled by default, I didn't configure to build it (that is, my configure command was just ./configure --with-libpcap=included). I have both python (Python2) and python3 executables on my system

@dmiller-nmap I like to work on this. Not fulltime. But when i have time i will do it. It's ok to use PyUnit for this write..?

@berdario probably too late to reply but may be useful for someone else
build directory will be created if you run python setup.py install