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On 10/04/2010 01:54, Alfredo Deza wrote:
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<div>I am having issues testing the constructor of a class that has a
try/except block.</div>
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<div>Should __init__ raise an exception so I can catch via
self.assertRaises to make it easier to test? Or are there other ways </div>
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<div>What is the way you guys use the most (or like the best) for
testing __init__?</div>
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Well, avoiding doing things like that in constructors is one way to
make them more testable. Another way is to factor that code into a
separate method so that it can be stubbed out (test your constructor
calls it) and also tested separately.<br>
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Michael<br>
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<div>Thanks!</div>
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Alfredo Deza<br>
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