[TIP] hackish generative tests (was: Re: Generating tests, II (was: Re: Meta-test methods...))

[holger krekel]

On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 20:48 -0400, Douglas Philips wrote:
> Earlier, I indited:
> > I really like the funcargs approach, and it might work in my  
> > setting. It would require a gradual transition from  
> > self.power_cycle(..) to power_device.power_cycle() where  
> > power_device was a funcargs provided parameter. :)
> 
> In the example you showed, a func-args-producer was passed in a func- 
> args-consumer function.
> I was presuming that this would generalize to multiple arguments, but  
> wanted to make that an explicit point. One test might need a power  
> interface and a communications interface and ... (typically about  
> three or four such wirings up for the more complex tests)...

yes, if you look again at the issue-code, you'll notice 
that its has access to all funcargs at once and
could also set multiple funcargs at once. 

The "normal" pytest_funcarg__NAME methods only produce
a single funcarg instance.  Allows for orthogonality between
funcarg producers.  

holger

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