[Twisted-Python] Re: [Twisted-commits] r15100 - So I really do want this stuff

[Jonathan Lange]

On 13/11/05, James Y Knight <foom at fuhm.net> wrote:
>
> On Nov 11, 2005, at 5:11 PM, Jonathan Lange wrote:
> >> This seems to beg the question:
> >>
> >>   Why?
> >>
> >> So, consider it begged :)
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Because I'm going to implement setUpClass using this stuff.
> >
> > Why?
> >
> > Because the current implementation is horrible, as discussed.
>
> Maybe this is a stupid question, but I'm confused as to why the
> implementation isn't straightforward, something along the lines of
> the following:
>
> for each module to test:
>    for each class that is a subclass of TestCase in module:
>      testCase = class()
>      testCase.setUpClass()
>      for each method in testCase:
>        testCase.setUp()
>        testCase.method()
>        testCase.tearDown()
>      testCase.tearDownClass()
>
> Now I now it has to be somewhat more complicated, due to error
> handling, deferred handling, suppress, etc, but it does seem like
> that would be the outline...can it not be?

The short answer: An instance of a TestCase subclass represents a single test.

jml