[TIP] RFF: Article on python test design pattern - DAI
Barry Warsaw
barry at python.org
Tue Dec 8 07:28:01 PST 2009
On Dec 8, 2009, at 10:13 AM, Olemis Lang wrote:
> Hmmmm ... if something failed in your (unit)tests then it should be an
> exception condition (considering unittest philosophy and | or style
> since you write «positive» test cases i.e. conditions that have be
> asserted in to make the TC pass) . Isn't it ?
Something you might consider for more modern Pythons is to create a test exception hierarchy derived from BaseException instead of Exception. Then common idioms like:
try:
dotest()
except Exception:
swallow()
won't catch the test assertion. A bare except will, but those are (mostly) evil right? :)
Unfortunately AssertionError won't cut it for this since it has Exception in its parentage.
-Barry
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