Passing arguments to subclasses of unittest.TestCase

[Tom Harris]

Hi,

Is there a way to pass arguments to TestCases when running tests? I have
a test suite that need to be configured slightly differently for 3
different products, and rather than do a hack I wondered if there was a
canonical way to do it.

I _know_ that py.test can do it trivially. I am rather stuck with
unittest, as I have 84 testcases, and I have to make it work tomorrow.

 

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Hi,

Is there a way to pass arguments to TestCases when running tests? I have
a test suite that need to be configured slightly differently for 3
different products, and rather than do a hack I wondered if there was a
canonical way to do it.

I _know_ that py.test can do it trivially. I am rather stuck with
unittest, as I have 84 testcases, and I have to make it work tomorrow.

How about writing one test that takes arguments, and three test-methods
that invoke it with different arguments? Or need there be commandline
arguments or such stuff involved?

Diez