unittest problems

[Richard Wesley]

In article <87el095733.fsf at pobox.com>, jjl at pobox.com (John J. Lee) 
wrote:

> Richard Wesley <hawkfish at trustedmedianetworks.com> writes:
> 
> > I am trying to retrofit some units test into our code using the unittest 
> > module.  I can get individual rewrites to work, but I am having trouble 
> > writing the "one test to run them all and in the darkness bind them" 
> > script.  There are two main sources of trouble:
> > 
> > - Test data that is stored next to the script that uses it;
> > - Several levels of scripts (top/utils/tests) with tests/data scattered 
> > at all levels;
> > 
> > Are there any good examples out there of a more complex set of tests in 
> > a multilevel tree/package with attached test data?  What about standard 
> > conventions for hooking stuff together (suite(), etc.)?
> 
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Thanks.

My problem turned out to be that the existing code had lots of relative 
import statements (from FileInSameDir import blah) which caused import 
to barf when called from a different level in the tree.  Not to mention 
a few missing __init__.py files.  Once I cleaned everything up, it all 
worked and the main unit_test.py will run everything.   I used your 
code, driving it with the results of os.path.walk and parameterizing the 
pattern as a list (we have two test case file name patterns, one for 
intercaps and one for _).

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