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Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> writes:

> But the tests, at this moment, are not written to instantiate
> self.tree but to call avltree directly.

That is exactly what the ‘TestCase.setUp’ method is for: to have the
test case class specify how its test cases will customise themselves.

    class AVLTree_TestCase(unittest.TestCase):
        tree = AVLTree

        def setUp(self):
            super().setUp()
            self.test_instance = self.tree()

        def test_empty_tree_is_false(self):
            self.assertFalse(self.test_instance)


    class LoremIpsumAVLTree_TestCase(AVLTree_TestCase):
        tree = LoremIpsumAVLTree


    class DolorSitAmetAVLTree_TestCase(AVLTree_TestCase):
        tree = DolorSitAmetAVLTree


By not overriding ‘setUp’, the same routine will be called in the
subclass's instance also.

> So I have to rewrite these tests.

Yes, you'll need to consider inheritance and how the ‘unittest’ API
supports it.

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