Feb. 9, 2010
5:57 p.m.
Le Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:42:50 +0000, Michael Foord a écrit :
The next 'big' change to unittest will (may?) be the introduction of class and module level setUp and tearDown. This was discussed on Python-ideas and Guido supported them. They can be useful but are also very easy to abuse (too much shared state, monolithic test classes and modules). Several authors of other Python testing frameworks spoke up *against* them, but several *users* of test frameworks spoke up in favour of them. ;-)
One problem is that it is not obvious what happens with inheritance. If I have a class-level setUp for class B, and class C inherits from B, will there be a separate invocation of setUp for C, or not? (I guess both possibilities have use cases) Antoine.