[TIP] Test Parameterization with unittest
Michael Foord
fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk
Mon May 11 10:52:50 PDT 2009
Douglas Philips wrote:
> On 2009 May 11, at 12:33 PM, Michael Foord wrote:
>
>> Currently trying to write tests for test discovery.
>>
>
> What I did to get my current itch scratched was have a new method
> prefix: "make_tests" - the unit test framework runs that and expects
> it to return a sequence of TestCase instances to be run. It was the
> simplest change I could make to get creating dynamic tests. You can
> check the archives for details.
>
In what context - testing test discovery or parameterizing tests?
It doesn't seem relevant to the former. For the latter I quite like
dynamically creating test methods in a metaclass.
Michael
> -Doug
>
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