how to make all assertions in a unit test execute

[Peter Otten]

jimgardener wrote:

> I was testing a function using unittest.
> 
> def get_filenames(dirname,innerstring):
>     ....
>     return filenames_containing_innerstring

> class FileNamesTest(unittest.TestCase):
>      def setUp(self):
>         self.dirname='/home/me/data'

> when I run the unittest, if the test fails at the first assertion,the
> other assertions are not executed at all..How do I organize the test
> so that all assertions can run?

Keep it simple ;)

      def test_get_filenames_single_match(self): 
>         innerstr='tom'
>         matching_names=get_filenames(self.dirname,innerstr)
>         self.assertEquals(1,len(matching_names))
      def test_get_filenames_no_match(self): 
>         innerstr='myself'
>         matching_names=get_filenames(self.dirname,innerstr)
>         self.assertEquals(0,len(matching_names))
      def test_get_filenames_multi_match(self): 
>         innerstr='jerry'
>         matching_names=get_filenames(self.dirname,innerstr)
>         self.assertEquals(3,len(matching_names))

Peter