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Re: unittest weirdness

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On 03/11/2014 01:58 PM, Ethan Furman wrote:
>
> So I finally got enough data and enough of an understanding to write some unit tests for my code.

> The weird behavior I'm getting:
>
>    - when a test fails, I get the E or F, but no summary at the end
>      (if the failure occurs in setUpClass before my tested routines
>      are actually called, I get the summary; if I run a test method
>      individually I get the summary)
>
>    - I have two classes, but only one is being exercised
>
>    - occasionally, one of my gvim windows is unceremoniously killed
>     (survived only by its swap file)
>
> I'm running the tests under sudo as the routines expect to be run that way.
>
> Anybody have any ideas?

For posterity's sake:

I added a .close() method to the class being tested which destroys its big data structures; then I added a tearDownClass 
method to the unittest.  That seems to have done the trick with getting the tests to /all/ run, and by apps don't 
suddenly disappear.  :)

--
~Ethan~

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Re: unittest weirdness Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2014-04-30 16:32 -0700

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