[IronPython] Descriptive reports in unittest module

[Michael Foord]

2008/12/18 Yash Ganthe <yashgt at gmail.com>

> I am using the unittest module in IronPython 2.0.
>
> My TestClass has a function named testLoginWithInvalidUsername. I would
> like to attach a string to this function so that if the test fails, the
> string would be printed as:
> Failed : Testing the login functionality with invalid user name
> I am not asking for something that will automatically figure out the string
> to be printed. I am looking for a way for me to attach an attribute to the
> test function so that the string in the attribute gets printed.
>
> Is there something readily avaliable for doing this?



Most unittest assert methods take an optional message parameter - where the
message is the failure message. e.g.

self.assertEquals('foo', 'bar', 'foo is not equal to bar')

Michael



>
>
> Currently my test report comes out as:
> testDateDiffWeek (PI.GetMessages.GetMessagesTestClass) ... ok
> testGetMessageGUIDnull (PI.GetMessages.GetMessagesTestClass) ... FAIL
>
> Thanks,
> Yash
>
>
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