[pytest-dev] Questions about paramtrize and csv files

holger krekel holger at merlinux.eu
Thu Apr 18 12:34:26 CEST 2013


hi Thomas,

On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 12:19 +0200, Thomas CARPENTIER wrote:
> Hi Holger,
> 
> 
> here you can find my code : http://pastebin.com/fmitjbw2
> 
> and here the csv : http://pastebin.com/UHv2XPt5
> 
> the tracebacks : http://pastebin.com/E5p3tLCR
> 
> thanks.

If those 44 "datas" rows each contain 4-tuples you can just call

    metafunc.parametrize(("url", "name", "lastname", "idCustomer"), datas)

The extra [] list around "datas" leads to the error.

holger

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> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 11:35 AM, holger krekel <holger at merlinux.eu> wrote:
> 
> > hi Thomas,
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 11:24 +0200, Thomas CARPENTIER wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm working with pytest since few weeks now for automate my functionnal
> > > tests using Webdriver and python. And i have some questions about how to
> > > paramatrize tests.
> > >
> > > After reading docs, i've setup my tests like :
> > >
> > > @pytest.mark.parametrize(("Url", "name", "LastName", "IdCustomer"), [
> > >  ("http://myurl.com", "myname", "mylastname", "12345"),
> > > ])
> > > def test_get_infos_about_client(Url, name, Lastname, IdCustomer):
> > >     #Do something with arguments
> > >     [...]
> > >
> > >
> > > My problem is I've 2 testing environnements ENV1 and ENV2, however datas
> > (
> > > in particular IdCustomer  are not the same between ENV1 and ENV2 ( these
> > > datas are generated during the creation of the Customer)
> > >
> > > So , I'm thinking about use csv files to inject datas in place of
> > > parametrize function. But I did'nt find any docs about it. Is it
> > possible?
> > >
> > > I've tried
> > >
> > > def pytest_generate_tests(metafunc):
> > >     #read csv file
> > >     metafunc.parametrize(header, datas)
> > >
> > > But it doesn't work!
> > >
> > > Can I do the same thing with another method ?
> >
> >
> > usually pytest_generate_tests is the right place to perform
> > config-dependent parametrization.  Could you post what you
> > tried there concretely including failure tracebacks?
> >
> > holger
> >
> >
> > > Thnaks for your help
> > >
> > >
> > > Thomas
> >
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