Re: [Pyunit-interest] How do you import a module with unit tests and then run them?

[Michal W. <sa...@ma...>]

On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Andrew P. Lentvorski wrote:

> So, how do I get test_unittest2.py to call the tests in test_unittest.py
> and run them correctly?  I am open to changing the original test code,
> explicitly assigning stuff, etc. to make this work.  I would even use
> execfile or the imp module if required.
> 
> Lest someone think that this is just a really stupid thing to do, I will
> point out that the same issues arise if you try to use the python debugger
> on a unittest as it also wants to import the module and then run the unit
> tests.

Hey Andrew,

well, the defaultTest thing seems to be looking in the
top level namespace, so if you put...

import test_unittest
from test_unittest import *

... at the top of test_unittest2 , it'll work fine.

A better idea might be to use a different unittest
funciton - one that takes an explicit test suite.

---

Personally, when I want to debug a test case, I just add
this line to the place in the test where I want to start
debugging:

    import pdb; pdb.set_trace()

Then I just run my tests as usual. ('Course I work with
the TextTestRunner... I don't know how useful that is
in the GUI)

Cheers,

- Michal   http://www.sabren.net/   sa...@ma... 
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