[Python-Dev] setUpClass and setUpModule in unittest

[Olemis Lang]

On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 6:15 PM,  <exarkun at twistedmatrix.com> wrote:
> On 10:42 pm, fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk wrote:
>>
>> On 09/02/2010 21:57, Ben Finney wrote:
>>>
>>> Michael Foord<fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk>  writes:
>>>>
>>>> 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. ;-)
>>>
>>> I think the perceived need for these is from people trying to use the
>>> 18unittest 19 API for test that are *not* unit tests.
>>>
>>> That is, people have a need for integration tests (test this module's
>>> interaction with some other module) or system tests (test the behaviour
>>> of the whole running system). They then try to crowbar those tests into
>>> 18unittest 19 and finding it lacking, since  18unittest 19 is designed
>>> for
>>> tests of function-level units, without persistent state between those
>>> test cases.
>>
>> I've used unittest for long running functional and integration tests (in
>> both desktop and web applications). The infrastructure it provides is great
>> for this. Don't get hung up on the fact that it is called unittest. In fact
>> for many users the biggest reason it isn't suitable for tests like these is
>> the lack of shared fixture support - which is why the other Python test
>> frameworks provide them and we are going to bring it into unittest.
>
> For what it's worth, we just finished *removing* support for setUpClass and
> tearDownClass from Trial.
>

Ok ... but why ? Are they considered dangerous for modern societies ?

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