[Python-Dev] setUpClass and setUpModule in unittest

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Fri Feb 12 11:18:26 CET 2010


Holger Krekel wrote:
> In my experience, integration and
> functional testing is a  complex and evolving topic, usually requiring
> more from the tool or framework than classic unit-testing.

Assignment for the reader: compare and contrast unittest and
test.regrtest (including test.support and friends) :)

Yes, you need extra stuff to do higher level testing, but in many
instances unittest still makes a nice framework to hang it on.

Cheers,
Nick.

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