How to run python unittests for multiple implementations in one go

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I'm having trouble figuring out the proper way of using pythons unittest framework

I currently have 3 different implementations for a data structure class and unittests to test various things in the class as follows:

import fooHorse
import fooSnake
import fooMoose
import unittest

foo = fooHorse.foo()
#foo = fooSnake.foo()
#foo = fooMoose.foo()

class testFoo(unittest.TestCase):
    def testSomething(self):
        foo.do_something()
    ...
    def testSomethingelse(self):
        ...
    # etc

if __name__ == "__main__":
    unittest.main()

How do I refactor the code so that all the tests are run for fooSnake.foo, fooMoose.foo and fooHorse.foo?

madjar · Accepted Answer · 2011-10-14 07:31:35Z

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Just factor all the testing into a function and call it from the three tests :

class testFoo(unittest.TestCase):
    def _doTest(self, foo):
         foo.do_something()
         # ...

    def testFoorHorse(self):
        foo = fooHorse.foo()
        self._doTest(foo)
    # and so on.

I wouldn't try to do anything more clever so that the test logic stays simple enought to be obviously bug-free.

answered Oct 14, 2011 at 7:31

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jro · Accepted Answer · 2011-10-14 11:16:31Z

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I think it is better to keep the testing code inside the classes under test (so, inside the fooHorse classes and such). I can't really tell from the code segment, so maybe you are already doing that. Then to combine multiple tests to be run at the same time, or selecting a few of them, you could create a separate testing class that creates a test suite. In there, the individual unittests can be assigned. See the python docs for details on this.

answered Oct 14, 2011 at 11:16

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