On Apr 8, 12:10 pm, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote:
> I can even create new test cases from these on the fly with something
> like:
>
> newClass = type("newClass", (BaseSmokeTest,), {'route': '/my/newly/
> discovered/anchor'})
>
> (credit
> tohttp://jjinux.blogspot.com/2005/03/python-create-new-class-on-fly.html
> for that neat little trick). The only thing I don't see is how I can
> now get unittest.main(), which is already running, to notice that a
> new test case has been created and add it to the list of test cases to
> run. Any ideas on how to do that?
The basic unittest.main() runner isn't well suited to this task. It
flows in a pipeline of discovery -> test_suite -> test_runner.
I think you're going to need a queue of tests, with your own test
runner consuming the queue, and your on-the-fly test creator running
as a producer thread.
Writing your own test runner isn't difficult. 1) wait on the queue
for a new test case. 2) invoke test_case.run() with a TestResult
object to hold the result 3) accumulate or report the results 4)
repeat forever.
Raymond
twitter: @raymondh
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