On 9/28/2011 10:16 AM, Tim Chase wrote:
When performing unittest tests, I have a number of methods of the form
def test_foo(self):
data = (
(item1, result1),
... #bunch of tests for fence-post errors
)
for test, result in data:
self.assertEqual(process(test), result)
When I run my tests, I only get a tick for running one the one test
(test_foo), not the len(data) tests that were actually performed. Is
there a way for unittesting to report the number of passed-assertions
rather than the number of test-methods run?
In my view, unittest, based on JUnit from Java, is both overkill and
inadequate for simple function testing of multiple input-output pairs.
So I wrote my own short function test function that does just what I
want, and which I can change if I change what I want.
Ben has described the combinatorial explosion solution. But if I were
using unittest, I might do something like the following:
def test_foo(self):
data = (
(item1, result1),
... #bunch of tests for fence-post errors
)
errors = []
for input, expected in data:
try:
actual = process(input)
if actual != expected: errors.append(input, expected, actual)
except Exception as e:
errors.append(input, expected, actual)
self.assertEqual((0,[]), (len(errors),errors))
except that I would write a functest(func, iopairs) that returned the
error pair. (This is essentially what I have done for for myself.) I am
presuming that one can run unittest so that it prints the unequal items.
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Terry Jan Reedy
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