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Re: unit testing class hierarchies

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Fayaz Yusuf Khan wrote:

> Peter Otten wrote:
> 
>> Ulrich Eckhardt wrote:
>>> The problem here is that TestBase is not a complete test case (just
> as
>>> class Base is not complete), but the unittest framework will still
> try
>>> to run it on its own.
> How exactly are you invoking the test runner? unittest? nose? You can
> tell the test discoverer which classes you want it to run and which
> ones you don't. For the unittest library, I use my own custom
> load_tests methods:
> def load_tests(loader, tests, pattern):
>     testcases = [TestD1, TestD2]
>     return TestSuite([loader.loadTestsFromTestCase(testcase)
>                       for testcase in testcases])
> http://docs.python.org/library/unittest.html#load-tests-protocol
> 
>>> One way around this is to not derive class
>>> TestBase from unittest.
>> 
>> Another is to remove it from the global namespace with
>> 
>> del TestBase
> Removing the class from namespace may or may not help. Consider a
> scenario where someone decided to be creative with the cls.__bases__
> attribute.

Isn't that a bit far-fetched? I'd rather start simple and fix problems as 
they arise... 

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unit testing class hierarchies Ulrich Eckhardt <ulrich.eckhardt@dominolaser.com> - 2012-10-02 14:27 +0200
  Re: unit testing class hierarchies Demian Brecht <demianbrecht@gmail.com> - 2012-10-02 07:05 -0700
  Re: unit testing class hierarchies Thomas Bach <thbach@students.uni-mainz.de> - 2012-10-02 16:06 +0200
    Re: unit testing class hierarchies Ulrich Eckhardt <ulrich.eckhardt@dominolaser.com> - 2012-10-02 17:24 +0200
    Re: unit testing class hierarchies Ulrich Eckhardt <ulrich.eckhardt@dominolaser.com> - 2012-10-02 18:54 +0200
      Re: unit testing class hierarchies Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2012-10-02 19:38 +0200
      Re: unit testing class hierarchies Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-10-02 19:41 +0100
      Re: unit testing class hierarchies Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2012-10-03 08:30 +1000
        Re: unit testing class hierarchies Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-10-03 01:20 +0000
          Re: unit testing class hierarchies Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2012-10-03 10:33 +0100
          Re: unit testing class hierarchies Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-10-03 16:14 -0400
  Re: unit testing class hierarchies Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2012-10-02 16:32 +0200
  Re: unit testing class hierarchies Fayaz Yusuf Khan <fayaz@dexetra.com> - 2012-10-02 20:35 +0530
  Re: unit testing class hierarchies Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2012-10-02 19:40 +0200
    Re: unit testing class hierarchies Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-10-02 19:46 -0400

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