[Python-Dev] setUpClass and setUpModule in unittest

[Michael Foord]

On 09/02/2010 17:57, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> 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)
>    

Well, what I would expect (others may disagree) is that you only have 
class level setup invoked for classes that have tests (so not for base 
classes) and that the base-class setUpClass is only called if invoked by 
the subclass.

I haven't thought about *where* the code to do this should go. It 
*could* go in TestSuite, but that feels like the wrong place.

Michael

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