On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 09:53:33AM -0700, Ethan Furman wrote:
> Part of writing tests is making sure they fail (and for the right reason) --
> proper testing of the tests would reveal such a typo.
And there are other failure modes for writing tests that succeed but
are not testing what you think. For example, you might re-use the
same method name:
def test_connection(self):
# Never executed
...
... 200 lines and 10 other test methods later ...
def test_connection(self):
...
Or misuse assertRaises:
with self.assertRaises(TypeError):
1 + "a"
# Second statement never reached
[] + 'b'
I don't think unittest can protect its users from such things.
--amk
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