Generator is a helper for generating test methods for nose while still using unittest
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Generator is a helper for generating test methods for nose while still using unittest.
Free software: ISC license
Documentation: https://generator.readthedocs.org.
Introduction
Have you ever written tests that loop through a list of inputs to validate the functionality?
Something like?
from mything import thingy class MyTestCase(unittest.TestCase): def test_thingy(self): for input in [ 'a', 'b', 'cccc', 'ddd' 'eeeeee', 'f', 'g' ]: self.assertTrue(thingy(input))
But running in a loop limits all the functionality in TestCase like per- test setUp or tearDown. It also fails on the first input and you can’t run a single test input, you have to run them all? (Doesn’t work well when each test is more complicated than this toy case).
Instead, what if you wrote your test like:
from generator import generator, generate from mything import thingy @generator class MyTestCase(unittest.TestCase): @generate('a', 'b', 'cccc', 'ddd', 'eeeeee', 'f', 'g'): def test_thingy(self, input): self.assertTrue(thingy(input))
And when you run your tests, you see:
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ran 7 tests in 0.001s OK
Generator gives you simple decorators to mulitply your test methods based on an argument list. It’s great for checking a range of inputs, a list of error conditions or expected status codes.
Examples
API Client Error Handling
Let’s make sure our API client properly handles error conditions and raises a generic APIError under the conditions. We’ll use mock to patch out the actual API call to return our response.
import mock from generator import generator, generate from example import client, APIError @generator class TestAPIErrorHandling(unittest.TestCase): @generate(400, 401, 403, 404, 500, 502, 503) def test_error(self, status_code): with mock.patch(client, '_request') as _request_stub: _request_stub.return_value.status_code = status_code self.assertRaises(APIError): client.get('/path/')
Test Fixtures
Let’s make sure our API client properly handles error conditions and raises a generic APIError under the conditions. We’ll use mock to patch out the actual API call to return our response.
from generator import generator, generate from example.sanitize import strip_tags @generator class TestStripTags(unittest.TestCase): @generate( ('<h1>hi</h1>', 'hi'), ('<script></script>something', 'something'), ('<div class="important"><p>some text</p></div>', 'some text'), ) def test_strip_tags(self, input, expected): self.assertEqual(strip_tags(input), expected)
History
0.1.0 (2015-10-15)
First release on PyPI.
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