On 15/09/2012 03:59, Aaron Brady wrote:
Hello,I've developing a test script. There's a lot of repetition. I want to introduce a strategy for approaching it, but I don't want the program to be discredited because of the test script. Therefore, I'd like to know what people's reactions to and thoughts about it are. The first strategy I used created an iterator and advanced it between each step: self.op_chain(range(5), ('add', 5)) self.op_chain(range(5), ('add', -2), ('add', -1)) self.op_chain(range(5), ('discard', -1), ('add', 5)) self.op_chain_ok(range(5), ('update', [0, 1])) Etc. I'm considering something more complicated. 'iN' creates iterator N, 'nN' advances iterator N, an exception calls 'assertRaises', and the rest are function calls. dsi= dict.__setitem__ ddi= dict.__delitem__ dsd= dict.setdefault KE= KeyError IE= IterationError self.chain(range(10), 'i0', (dsi, 0, 1), 'n0', (dsi, 10, 1), (IE, 'n0')) self.chain(range(10), 'i0', 'n0', (dsd, 0, 0), 'n0', (dsd, 10, 1), (IE, 'n0')) self.chain(range(10), 'i0', (KE, ddi, 10), 'n0', (ddi, 9), (IE, 'n0')) Do you think the 2nd version is legible? Could it interfere with the accuracy of the test?
http://docs.python.org/library/unittest.html#organizing-test-code seems to be a good starting point for avoiding repetition and introducing a strategy.
-- Cheers. Mark Lawrence. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
