Antoon Pardon <antoon.par...@rece.vub.ac.be> writes: > But the tests, at this moment, are not written to instantiate > self.tree but to call avltree directly.
That is exactly what the ‘TestCase.setUp’ method is for: to have the test case class specify how its test cases will customise themselves. class AVLTree_TestCase(unittest.TestCase): tree = AVLTree def setUp(self): super().setUp() self.test_instance = self.tree() def test_empty_tree_is_false(self): self.assertFalse(self.test_instance) class LoremIpsumAVLTree_TestCase(AVLTree_TestCase): tree = LoremIpsumAVLTree class DolorSitAmetAVLTree_TestCase(AVLTree_TestCase): tree = DolorSitAmetAVLTree By not overriding ‘setUp’, the same routine will be called in the subclass's instance also. > So I have to rewrite these tests. Yes, you'll need to consider inheritance and how the ‘unittest’ API supports it. -- \ “Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who | `\ speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.” —Ambrose | _o__) Bierce, _The Devil's Dictionary_, 1906 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list