[TIP] parametrized testing and unittest2.TestCase

Marius Gedminas marius at gedmin.as
Sun Dec 18 03:07:10 PST 2011


On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 09:15:18AM +0000, holger krekel wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 16:25 +1300, Robert Collins wrote:
> > testscenarios may either inspire or even help you with this.
> 
> Since some time there is a quick port example of testscenarios to py.test:
> 
>     http://pytest.org/latest/example/parametrize.html#a-quick-port-of-testscenarios
> 
> However, the main issue i see with parametrizing tests and dependency injection
> with unittest.TestCase is controling the life-cycle of a resource.
> How can you implement resources (with testscenarios, say) which are
> instantiated once per class or per test-run?

*cue Robert Collins jumping in and exclaiming "testresources"!*

Marius Gedminas
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