Re: Creating unit tests on the fly

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Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> writes:

> I think you're going to need a queue of tests, with your own test
> runner consuming the queue, and your on-the-fly test creator running
> as a producer thread.

I have found the ‘testscenarios’ library very useful for this: bind a
sequence of (name, dict) tuples to the test case class, and each tuple
represents a scenario of data fixtures that will be applied to every
test case function in the class.

    <URL:http://pypi.python.org/pypi/test-scenarios>

You (the OP) will also find the ‘testing-in-python’ discussion forum
<URL:http://lists.idyll.org/listinfo/testing-in-python> useful for this
topic.

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Creating unit tests on the fly Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2011-04-08 12:10 -0700
  Re: Creating unit tests on the fly Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> - 2011-04-08 14:50 -0700
    Re: Creating unit tests on the fly Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2011-04-09 08:46 +1000
      Re: Creating unit tests on the fly Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2011-04-08 22:02 -0400
        Re: Creating unit tests on the fly Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2011-04-09 12:15 +1000
    Re: Creating unit tests on the fly Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2011-04-10 22:45 -0400

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