unit testing class hierarchies
Thomas Bach
thbach at students.uni-mainz.de
Tue Oct 2 10:06:38 EDT 2012
On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 02:27:11PM +0200, Ulrich Eckhardt wrote:
> As you see, the code for test_base() is redundant, so the idea is to
> move it to a baseclass:
>
> class TestBase(unittest.TestCase):
> def test_base(self):
> ...
>
> class TestD1(TestBase):
> def test_r(self):
> ...
> def test_s(self):
> ...
>
> class TestD2(TestBase):
> def test_x(self):
> ...
> def test_y(self):
> ...
Could you provide more background? How do you avoid that test_base()
runs in TestD1 or TestD2?
To me it sounds like test_base() is actually no test. Hence, I would
rather give it a catchy name like _build_base_cls(). If a method name
does not start with 'test' it is not considered a test to run
automatically.
Does this help?
Regards,
Thomas Bach.
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