Re: pyUnit and dynamic test functions

2005-12-22 Thread Sakcee
Excellent , your example is elegant and runs beautifully so the idea is to create a testcase which runs a general function "testRun" (which calls the function defined in file )and loads data based on type , add this testcase to suite and run suite. thanks , this is exactly what I was looking for

Re: pyUnit and dynamic test functions

2005-12-22 Thread Fabrizio Milo
> thanks for any input or any alternate approach to it I think that your approach is not fair. You should create a TestCase for each of your data input, add it to a TestSuite and run the test suite. Here is a stub for loading just a 'dict' type, hoping it is helpful import unittest import glob

Re: pyUnit and dynamic test functions

2005-12-21 Thread Sakcee
Thanks for reply, here is the script with trucated datafile The data file is following , --- data file getUSStates~~dict~ {AK: Alaska, AL: Alabama, AR: Arkansas, AZ: Arizona, CA: California, CO: Colorado, WY: Wyoming } data file I want to test function:ge

Re: pyUnit and dynamic test functions

2005-12-21 Thread Kent Johnson
Sakcee wrote: > Hi > > I am trying to use pyUnit to create a framework for testing functions > > I am reading function name, expected output, from a text file. Can you show a sample of what the text file might look like, and what tests you want to generate from it? > and in python generating

Re: pyUnit and dynamic test functions

2005-12-21 Thread Sakcee
Please anyone help, is this kind of dynamin thing possible? any suggestion for creating frameworks for automated testing , all comments appreciated thanks Sakcee wrote: > Hi > > I am trying to use pyUnit to create a framework for testing functions > > I am reading function name, expected outpu

pyUnit and dynamic test functions

2005-12-20 Thread Sakcee
Hi I am trying to use pyUnit to create a framework for testing functions I am reading function name, expected output, from a text file. and in python generating dynamic test functions something like this class getUsStatesTest( unittest.TestCase ): self.setUp = lambda : function_call