How to pass variable to test class

[Podi]

Hi,

Newbie question about unittest. I am having trouble passing a variable
to a test class object.

MyCase class will potentially have many test functions.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks,
P

# File MyCase.py
import unittest

class MyCase(unittest.TestCase):
def __init__(self, value):
super(MyCase, self).__init__()
self.value = value
def test1(self):
print self.value
def test2(self):
print 'world'

if __name__ == '__main__':
msg = 'Hello'
myCase = MyCase(msg)
suite = unittest.TestSuite()
suite.addTest(myCase)
unittest.TextTestRunner(verbosity=2).run(suite)
D:\MyWorks>MyCase.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "D:\MyWorks\MyCase.py", line 14, in ?
myCase = MyCase(msg)
File "D:\MyWorks\MyCase.py", line 5, in __init__
super(MyCase, self).__init__()
File "C:\Python24\lib\unittest.py", line 208, in __init__
raise ValueError, "no such test method in %s: %s" % \
ValueError: no such test method in <class '__main__.MyCase'>: runTest

[Peter Otten]

Podi wrote:

Newbie question about unittest. I am having trouble passing a variable
to a test class object.

MyCase class will potentially have many test functions.

By default a unittest.TestCase has only one test function called "runTest".
Therefore you have to add multiple instances of your TestCase subclass to
the suite and to pass the test function's name to the initializer
explicitly:

import unittest

class MyTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
def __init__(self, testname, value):
super(MyTestCase, self).__init__(testname)
self.value = value
def test1(self):
pass
def test2(self):
pass

if __name__ == "__main__":
value = 42

suite = unittest.TestSuite()
suite.addTest(MyTestCase("test1", value))
suite.addTest(MyTestCase("test2", value))

unittest.TextTestRunner(verbosity=2).run(suite)

However, the standard place for common setup is in the setUp() method.

Peter

[Podi]

Thanks for replying.

I need to pass some external values to the test cases because I want to
run the same tests in different environments such as lab/instrument
setup.

Regards,
Podi