Question

I’m doing TDD using Python and the unittest module. In NUnit you can Assert.Inconclusive("This test hasn't been written yet").

So far I haven’t been able to find anything similar in Python to indicate that “These tests are just placeholders, I need to come back and actually put the code in them.”

Is there a Pythonic pattern for this?

Answer 1

With the new and updated unittest module you can skip tests:

@skip("skip this test")
def testSomething(self):
    pass # TODO

def testBar(self):
    self.skipTest('We need a test here, really')

def testFoo(self):
    raise SkipTest('TODO: Write a test here too')

When the test runner runs these, they are counted separately (“skipped: (n)”).