Organising unit tests
jimburton
jimburton1 at gmail.com
Fri Sep 29 06:45:41 EDT 2006
I have a number of unit tests organised hierarchically, all of which
inherit fixtures from a base class. To run these all at once I started
out using
from basic import map, directionalpan, layerorder, layervisibility,
listlayers, streamlayerlist
# ... lots more ...
suite0 =
unittest.TestLoader().loadTestsFromTestCase(directionalpan.TestPan)
suite1 =
unittest.TestLoader().loadTestsFromTestCase(layerorder.TestLayerorder)
# ... lots more ...
alltests = unittest.TestSuite([suite0
, suite1
....])
unittest.TextTestRunner(verbosity=2).run(alltests)
Which is unmaintainable. the TestLoader docs warn that
loadTestsFromModule will not play nicely with my situation and indeed
if I try
suite0 = unittest.TestLoader().loadTestsFromModule(basic)
then run the tests, it hasn't picked any up. I suppose I could collect
and run the tests with a shell script...what are my options here to
avoid hardcoding and maintaining the list of tests, and how is it
normally done?
Thanks.
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