Am 22.05.2013 17:32, schrieb Charles Smith:
I'd like to subclass from unittest.TestCase. I observed something
interesting and wonder if anyone can explain what's going on... some
subclasses create null tests.
I can perhaps guess what's going on, though Terry is right: Your
question isn't very helpful and informative.
I can create this subclass and the test works:
class StdTestCase (unittest.TestCase):
blahblah
and I can create this subsubclass and the test works:
class aaaTestCase (StdTestCase):
moreblahblah
but if I create this subsubclass (or any where the first letter is
capital):
class AaaTestCase (StdTestCase):
differentblahblah
the test completes immediately without any work being done.
Well, per PEP 8, classes use CamelCaps, so your naming might break
automatic test discovery. Then, there might be another thing that could
cause this, and that is that if you have an intermediate class derived
from unittest.TestCase, that class on its own will be considered as test
case! If this is not what you want but you still want common
functionality in a baseclass, create a mixin and then derive from both
the mixin and unittest.TestCase for the actual test cases.
Good luck!
Uli
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