You need to check out TestResource (see it's class comment), it was designed specifically for that purpose.
> On 18 Dec 2014, at 20:00, Demian Schkolnik <demianschkol...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Greetings. > > I have to do a bunch of tests, where the initial set up is quite costly > (launching ROS system and a bunch of nodes). Therefore, I don't want to set > it up each time before a test (like with the standard setUp function). How > can I make it so that the setUp function is called only once overall before > ALL tests? (And aditionally, so that the tearDown function is called only > once after all tests have run?) > > Thank you all in advance, > best,
