How to parameterize unittests

Antoon Pardon antoon.pardon at rece.vub.ac.be
Fri Apr 15 02:52:28 EDT 2016


Op 14-04-16 om 17:05 schreef Steven D'Aprano:
> On Fri, 15 Apr 2016 12:08 am, Antoon Pardon wrote:
>
>> I have a unittest for my avltree module.
>>
>> Now I want this unittest to also run on a subclass of avltree.
>> How can I organise this, so that I can largely reuse the
>> original TestCase?
>
> class Test_AVLTree(unittest.TestCase):
>     tree = avltree
>
>     def test_empty_tree_is_false(self):
>         instance = self.tree()
>         self.assertFalse(instance)
>
>
> class Test_MySubclassTree(Test_AVLTree):
>     tree = My_Subclass_Tree

I see, that's going to be a lot of cut & pastes.
Thanks.

-- 
Antoon.




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