[TIP] cleanUp for unittest

[Victoria G. Laidler]

Kumar McMillan wrote:
> self.addCleanup(self.db.teardown), I like this the best.
>   
+1
> this thread is a bit long now but the point of it was because unittest
> does not make the unconditional clean up pattern easy.  You
> essentially have to overload TestCase.runTest() to inject a
> try/finally block with your own custom implementation of cleanUp().
> Or use atexit.register() which only gets you half of the way there
> (cleanup is deferred til the end which can be problematic for long
> running test suites).
Exactly. In answer to Olemis's question about "Why not extend TestCase 
to do this?" -- my answer is "because that's *hard*".

I could get started with unitTest quickly because I didn't have to 
understand anything about how it worked behind the scenes: all I had to 
do was subclass from TestCase and write a setUp(), tearDown(), and 
test1(), test2(), etc, methods. I can explain *that* to my scientist 
colleagues! ;)

I think it's worth making the cleanup functionality available to people 
who would not really know how to overload the .runTest() method, or be 
unwilling to go that route for fear of breaking something because 
they're messing with stuff they don't really understand.

Vicki