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Tools for unit testing: data_provider and FixtureManager

Project description

Test files in project

/tests
    __init__.py
    /pkg1
        /fixtures
            foo1.json
            foo2.json
        __init__.py
        test1.py
    /pkg2
        /fixtures
            bar1.json
            bar2.json
        __init__.py
        test2.py

Content of “tests/pkg1/fixtures/foo1.json”:

{
    "blah1": [
        ["foo"],
        ["bar"],
        [1],
        [2],
        [true],
        [null]
    ],
    "blah2": [
        [-1234, 0],
        [3456, -2.345],
        [1, 1],
        [99999, false],
        [11, 789],
        [null, null]
    ]
}

Content of “tests/pkg1/test1”:

from unittest import TestCase

from test_tools import data_provider, FixtureManager

fx_man1 = FixtureManager()
fx_man1.load(fixture_file='foo1')

fx_man2 = FixtureManager()
fx_man2.load(fixture_file='foo2')


class MyTestCase(TestCase):
    @data_provider(fx_man1['blah1'])
    def test_my_cool_feature(self, param1):
        # some code
        pass

    @data_provider(fx_man1['blah2'])
    def test_my_cool_feature(self, param1, param2):
        # some code
        pass

    @data_provider(fx_man2['blah3'])
    def test_my_cool_feature(self, param):
        # some code
        pass

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