Question

Context: python 2.6.5 environment

I am using unittest.defaultTestLoader.loadTestsFromModule(module) to load tests.
However, when the following is loaded, the setUpClass method is not executed.

class MyTest(unittest.TestCase):
    foo = None

    def test_choice(self):
        self.logger.info('   .. %s' % str(Full.foo))
        self.assertTrue(1 == 1)

    @classmethod
    def setUpClass(cls):
        logging.warn('setUpClass')
        cls.foo = settings.INITIAL

The returned test suites shows that it returned:

<unittest.TestSuite 
    tests=[<unittest.TestSuite 
         tests=[<internal.tests.master.MyTest testMethod=test_choice>]>,

Basically under the ‘test’ package, there will be many tests modules. And I want the setUpClass & tearDownClass to work for each test suites. loadTestsFromModule does not satisfy my requirement. Are there other ways to achieve this ?

Answer 1

It works now after I upgraded to use unittest2.