[Baypiggies] test method decorators

[Benjamin Sergeant]

One other decorator idea, close to the platform one, would be a module specific.
RIght now in my test I do it in my main runner script, trying to
import module specific tests, and removing them from the test modules
if the import fail.

Could we have a TestCase decorator level to do that (that might not
work since the module are imported in the first line of the test case
script) ?
Is there a better way to do that ?
Would it be a TestRunner decorator ?

Benjamin.

<<<
(from http://pytof.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/test/test.py)
def getDefaultTestModules():
    defaultTestModules = [os.path.splitext(i)[0] for i in glob('*_test.py')]
    # Remove tests that require non-installed dependency.
    try:
        import wxpil
    except ImportError:
        defaultTestModules.remove('wxpil_test')
    try:
        import gtkpil
    except ImportError:
        defaultTestModules.remove('gtkpil_test')
>>>

On 6/15/07, Kelly Yancey <kelly at nttmcl.com> wrote:
>
>   A couple of people asked me after the meeting to post my test method
> decorators for implementing TODO and platform-specific test annotations
> using the unittest module (they should work for nose too).  I just put
> them up on my blog at:
> http://kbyanc.blogspot.com/2007/06/pythons-unittest-module-aint-that-bad.html
>
>   I whipped them up during the meeting, so they are a little rough
> around the edges and only lightly tested, but I think they express the
> idea that unittest can do composition of extensions using function
> wrappers.  Python's decorator syntax makes wrapping the test methods
> easy on the eyes and intuitive.  The only thing I am currently aware of
> that cannot be done using decorators is implementing alternate loggers
> (e.g. to database or to XML).  The unittest module has some support for
> replacing loggers, and Collin alluded to an XML logger that I link to in
> my blog, but composition of loggers, as Collin mentioned in his talk, is
> distinctly non-trivial.
>
>   Kelly
>
> --
> Kelly Yancey
> http://kbyanc.blogspot.com/
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