[TIP] decorators in testing

[Ben Finney]

Michael Gratton <michael at quuxo.com> writes:

> In Python, a test class might look like:
> 
> class Foo(object):
> 
>     @before
>     def newFoo(self): ...
> 
>     @test
>     def handleFrobnostication(self): ...
> 
>     @after
>     def destroyFoo(self): ...

[…]

> Does anyone have an implementation of this for Python?

‘nose’ allows setup and teardown functions to be written, then used to
decorate test functions:

From nose import with_setup

def blivet_setup():
    # ...

def blivet_teardown():
    # ...

@with_setup(blivet_setup, blivet_teardown)
def test_frobnicates_the_blivet():
    # ...

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Ben Finney
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