[TIP] Supporting multiple fixtures for a test suite

[Kumar McMillan]

On Jan 3, 2008 8:57 PM, Gary Bernhardt <gary.bernhardt at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 3, 2008 8:09 PM, Titus Brown <titus at caltech.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Not that I know of, although my guess is that the Zope folk have some
> > fantastic, but unproselytized, testing tools that probably do this
> > automatically by actually reading the mind of the original test coder
> > and doing what the person *actually* wanted to do.  But I digress...
> >
> > Have you thought about importing the actual test code from a common
> > module, and providing different fixtures?  While I don't know that this
> > code actually works, it *should* work in nose ;)
>
> I think I'll go with this approach.  For some reason, I hadn't thought
> of putting the setup/teardown at the package level, rather than the
> module level (thanks Kumar).  That will solve most of my duplication
> fears, although I will still need to manually duplicate every test
> module in the child packages.  I imagine there's probably some way to
> inspect the parent package at import time and dynamically duplicate
> its module structure, but... no. :)

from common_tests import *

... doesn't that do what you mean?

>
> And I'll definitely switch to wsgi_intercept.  I can't believe I
> forgot about it!  I spent about an hour of my life basically
> reimplementing it... poorly.
>
> Thanks for your help guys.
>
> > ---
> > # test-WSGI-only.py
> >
> > from common_tests import test*
> >
> > def setup():
> >   # start up paste.fixture
> >
> > def teardown():
> >   # teardown paste.fixture
> >
> > ---
> > # test-live-site.py
> >
> > from common_tests import test*
> >
> > def setup():
> >    # start up live site
> >
> > def teardown():
> >    # tear down live site
> > ---
> >
> > Once you have the tests installed with the different enclosing module
> > names, then it's simply a matter of choosing whether or not to run them.
> > How to do this depends on your testing framework, though.
> >
> > I completely agree that NOT doing this sort of thing explicitly will
> > lead to you shooting yourself in your foot down the road...
> >
> > cheers,
> > --titus
> >
>
> --
> Gary
> http://blog.extracheese.org
>
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