On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 10:44 PM, Tom Roche <tom_ro...@pobox.com> wrote: > > How to create a single unittest test suite class that runs all methods > from multiple TestCase classes? Why I ask: > > I'm trying to relearn TDD and learn Python by coding a simple app. > Currently the app has 2 simple functional classes, Pid and TallyPid, > and 2 very simple testcases, PidTests and TallyPidTests: > > http://www.unc.edu/~tr/courses/ENVR400/Pid.py > http://www.unc.edu/~tr/courses/ENVR400/PidTests.py > http://www.unc.edu/~tr/courses/ENVR400/Tally.py > http://www.unc.edu/~tr/courses/ENVR400/TallyPidTests.py
> Before I continue, I'd like to create a single suite, in a separate > cfile file/module (e.g. AllTests.py), that will run both testcases > (PidTests.py and TallyPidTests.py). Unfortunately I have not been able > to do this! which surprises me, since creating such a suite in JUnit > is trivial. Can someone show me how to create this suite in python? > (FWIW the python version=2.5.2: downlevel, I know, but the box also > needs to run ArcGIS.) The supported way to do this is to create a test suite. There is an example here: http://docs.python.org/library/unittest.html#organizing-test-code In your case I think AllTests.py would look something like import unittest from PidTests import PidTests from TallyPidTests import TallyPidTests class AllTests(unittest.TestCase): def suite(): suite1 = unittest.TestLoader().loadTestsFromTestCase(PidTests) suite2 = unittest.TestLoader().loadTestsFromTestCase(TallyPidTests) return unittest.TestSuite([suite1, suite2]) However I don't recommend this style of organizing tests. I prefer using nose for test discovery, it saves the work of creating all the aggregating suites. I think py.test also has a test discovery component. In Python 2.7 the unittest module will finally have it's own test discovery. http://somethingaboutorange.com/mrl/projects/nose/0.11.1/finding_tests.html http://docs.python.org/dev/library/unittest.html#test-discovery Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
