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Re: Dynamic generation of test cases for each input datum (was: Is it possible to get string from function?)

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In article <mailman.5569.1389848543.18130.python-list@python.org>,
 Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> wrote:

> Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> writes:
> 
> > I've got some unit tests that look like:
> >
> > class Foo(TestCase):
> >   def test_t1(self):
> >     RECEIPT = "some string"
> >
> >   def test_t2(self):
> >     RECEIPT = "some other string"
> >
> >   def test_t3(self):
> >     RECEIPT = "yet a third string"
> >
> > and so on.
> 
> That looks like a poorly defined class.
> 
> Are the test cases pretty much identical other than the data in those
> strings?

No, each test is quite different.  The only thing they have in common is 
they all involve a string representation of a transaction receipt.  I 
elided the actual test code in my example above because it wasn't 
relevant to my question.

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Is it possible to get string from function? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-01-15 22:46 -0500
  Dynamic generation of test cases for each input datum (was: Is it possible to get string from function?) Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-01-16 16:02 +1100
    Re: Dynamic generation of test cases for each input datum (was: Is it possible to get string from function?) Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-01-16 00:09 -0500
  Re: Is it possible to get string from function? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-01-16 16:25 +1100
    Re: Is it possible to get string from function? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-01-16 00:40 -0500
      Re: Is it possible to get string from function? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-01-16 16:47 +1100
  Re: Is it possible to get string from function? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2014-01-16 07:16 +0000
    Re: Is it possible to get string from function? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-01-16 09:30 -0500
  Re: Is it possible to get string from function? Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-01-16 09:52 +0100

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