paul kölle wrote:
> hi all,
>
> I noticed that setUp() and tearDown() is run before and after *earch*
> test* method in my TestCase subclasses. I'd like to run them *once* for
> each TestCase subclass. How do I do that.
One way to do this is to make a TestSuite subclass that includes your startup
and shutdown code.
For example I have some tests that rely on a webserver being started. I have a
TestSuite that starts the server, runs the tests and stops the server. This way
the server is only started once per test module. Here is the TestSuite class:
class CbServerTestSuite(unittest.TestSuite):
''' A test suite that starts an instance of CbServer for the suite '''
def __init__(self, testCaseClass):
unittest.TestSuite.__init__(self)
self.addTest(unittest.defaultTestLoader.loadTestsFromTestCase(testCaseClass))
def __call__(self, result):
CbServer.start()
unittest.TestSuite.__call__(self, result)
CbServer.stop()
I use it like this:
class MyTest(unittest.TestCase):
def testWhatever(self):
pass
def suite():
return CbServerTestSuite(MyTest)
if __name__=='__main__':
unittest.TextTestRunner().run(suite())
This runs under Jython (Python 2.1); in more recent Python I think you can
override TestSuite.run() instead of __call__().
Kent
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