Roy Smith wrote: > I'm using Python 2.6, with unittest2 imported as unittest. > > I'm writing a test suite for a web application. There is a subclass of > TestCase for each basic page type. One thing that's in common between > all the pages is that every page must have a valid copyright notice. It > seems like the logical thing would be to put the common test(s) in a > subclass unittest.TestCase and have all my real test cases derive from > that: > > class CommonTestCase(unittest.TestCase): > def test_copyright(self): > self.assert_(find copyright notice in DOM tree) > > class HomepageTestCase(CommonTestCase): > def setUp(self): > self.url = "http://site.com"; > > def test_whatever(self): > self.assert_(whatever) > > This works fine as far as HomepageTestCase running test_copyright() and > test_whatever(). The problem is that CommonTestCase *also* runs > test_copyright(), which fails because there's no setUp(), and thus no > retrieved page for it to work on. > > The hack that I came up with is: > > class CommonTestCase(unittest.TestCase): > def test_copyright(self): > if self.__class__.__name__ == 'CommonTestCase': > return > self.assert_(find copyright notice in DOM tree) > > which works, but it's ugly. It also counts > CommonTestCase.test_copyright() as passing, which messes up the > statistics. Is there a cleaner way to define some common test methods > which all of my test cases can inherit, without having them be run in > the base class?
Remove the base class from the module with del CommonTestCase before you invoke unittest.main(). Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
