[Tutor] Test code organization

[Willi Richert]

Hi,

for some time I try to find the best test code organization. I've come up with 
the following solution, which I guess is not optimal. Please comment.

In the code directory there is a special tests directory, which contains all 
the unit test files. There is the file alltests.py which collects all python 
test files and executes them:

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import sys, unittest
sys.path.append(".")
sys.path.append("..")

TEST_DIR = "tests"

import glob
testCases = [t.split(".")[0] for t in glob.glob1(TEST_DIR, "*Tests.py")]
print "Found test case modules "+", ".join(testCases)
print

for t in testCases:
        exec("from %s import %s"%(TEST_DIR, t))

def suite():
    exec("suites = tuple([x.suite() for x in [%s]])"%str(", 
".join(testCases)))
    suite = unittest.TestSuite(suites)
    return suite


if __name__ == '__main__':
        suite = suite()
        result = unittest.TextTestRunner(verbosity=2).run(suite)
        if result.wasSuccessful():
                sys.exit(0)
        else:
                sys.exit(1)
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For every class to test I create a ClassTests.py file which contains the 
following code:
Header:
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import sys
sys.path.append("..")

import unittest
from Class... import *
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The footer parses the available test classes:
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def _testclasses():
    mod = sys.modules[__name__]
    return [getattr(mod, name) for name in dir(mod) if 
name.endswith('TestCase')]

def suite():
        return unittest.TestSuite([unittest.makeSuite(tc) for tc in 
_testclasses()])

if __name__ == '__main__':
                unittest.main()
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What smalls badly is the sys.path.append() stuff every test file must have. 
Improvements?

Thanks for any comment,
wr

-- 
Gruss,
wr

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