[pytest-dev] Questions about paramtrize and csv files

[holger krekel]

hi Thomas,

On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 11:24 +0200, Thomas CARPENTIER wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm working with pytest since few weeks now for automate my functionnal
> tests using Webdriver and python. And i have some questions about how to
> paramatrize tests.
> 
> After reading docs, i've setup my tests like :
> 
> @pytest.mark.parametrize(("Url", "name", "LastName", "IdCustomer"), [
>  ("http://myurl.com", "myname", "mylastname", "12345"),
> ])
> def test_get_infos_about_client(Url, name, Lastname, IdCustomer):
>     #Do something with arguments
>     [...]
> 
> 
> My problem is I've 2 testing environnements ENV1 and ENV2, however datas (
> in particular IdCustomer  are not the same between ENV1 and ENV2 ( these
> datas are generated during the creation of the Customer)
> 
> So , I'm thinking about use csv files to inject datas in place of
> parametrize function. But I did'nt find any docs about it. Is it possible?
> 
> I've tried
> 
> def pytest_generate_tests(metafunc):
>     #read csv file
>     metafunc.parametrize(header, datas)
> 
> But it doesn't work!
> 
> Can I do the same thing with another method ?


usually pytest_generate_tests is the right place to perform
config-dependent parametrization.  Could you post what you
tried there concretely including failure tracebacks?

holger


> Thnaks for your help
> 
> 
> Thomas

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