unittest problems

[Richard Wesley]

Hi all -

I am trying to retrofit some units test into our code using the unittest
module. I can get individual rewrites to work, but I am having trouble
writing the "one test to run them all and in the darkness bind them"
script. There are two main sources of trouble:

- Test data that is stored next to the script that uses it;
- Several levels of scripts (top/utils/tests) with tests/data scattered
at all levels;

Are there any good examples out there of a more complex set of tests in
a multilevel tree/package with attached test data? What about standard
conventions for hooking stuff together (suite(), etc.)?

TIA,

 

[John J. Lee]

I am trying to retrofit some units test into our code using the unittest
module. I can get individual rewrites to work, but I am having trouble
writing the "one test to run them all and in the darkness bind them"
script. There are two main sources of trouble:

- Test data that is stored next to the script that uses it;
- Several levels of scripts (top/utils/tests) with tests/data scattered
at all levels;

Are there any good examples out there of a more complex set of tests in
a multilevel tree/package with attached test data? What about standard
conventions for hooking stuff together (suite(), etc.)?

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John

 

[Richard Wesley]

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Thanks.

My problem turned out to be that the existing code had lots of relative
import statements (from FileInSameDir import blah) which caused import
to barf when called from a different level in the tree. Not to mention
a few missing __init__.py files. Once I cleaned everything up, it all
worked and the main unit_test.py will run everything. I used your
code, driving it with the results of os.path.walk and parameterizing the
pattern as a list (we have two test case file name patterns, one for
intercaps and one for _).

 

[John J. Lee]

worked and the main unit_test.py will run everything. I used your
code, driving it with the results of os.path.walk and parameterizing the

[...]

*My* code? Well, fine, I suppose, but probably Bernhard Herzog's &
somebody else's posts there had better code...


John