[Python-Dev] setUpClass and setUpModule in unittest

Tue Feb 9 20:24:33 CET 2010

On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Michael Foord <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk> wrote:
> On 09/02/2010 17:57, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
>>>> Le 2010年2月09日 16:42:50 +0000, Michael Foord a écrit :
>>>>>>>> The next 'big' change to unittest will (may?) be the introduction of
>>> class and module level setUp and tearDown. This was discussed on
>>> Python-ideas and Guido supported them. They can be useful but are also
>>> very easy to abuse (too much shared state, monolithic test classes and
>>> modules). Several authors of other Python testing frameworks spoke up
>>> *against* them, but several *users* of test frameworks spoke up in
>>> favour of them. ;-)
>>>>>>> One problem is that it is not obvious what happens with inheritance.
>> If I have a class-level setUp for class B, and class C inherits from B,
>> will there be a separate invocation of setUp for C, or not?
>> (I guess both possibilities have use cases)
>>>> Well, what I would expect (others may disagree) is that you only have class
> level setup invoked for classes that have tests (so not for base classes)
> and that the base-class setUpClass is only called if invoked by the
> subclass.
>> I haven't thought about *where* the code to do this should go. It *could* go
> in TestSuite, but that feels like the wrong place.
>
When I implemented this in `dutest` I did it as follows :
 - Changed suiteClass (since it was an extension ;o)
 - I had to override the suite's `run` method
PS: Probably it's not the right place, but AFAIK it's the only place
«we» have to do such things ;o)
-- 
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Olemis.
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