Unittest - How do I code lots of simple tests

Paul Moore paul.moore at atosorigin.com
Wed Oct 22 07:44:26 EDT 2003


David Goodger <goodger at python.org> wrote in message news:<mailman.322.1066779769.2192.python-list at python.org>...
> Paul Moore wrote:
>  >>> Can anyone suggest a more reasonable way of running this sort of
>  >>> table-driven test via unittest?
> 
> Take a look at Docutils' test/DocutilsTestSupport.py for ideas.  The
> CustomTestSuite and CustomTestCase classes provide support for named
> data-driven tests.  Most of Docutils' tests are data-driven.

Urk. That's hairy stuff. Thanks for the pointer, I'll do some research.

But I still think that this sort of thing should be easy :-(

Paul.




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