Hi, I have three functions - create(), list(), and delete(). create() creates a new name in the file system hierarchy while list() displays all such created names and delete() removes them. I would like to write test cases for each of these functions, say, test_create() , test_list(), and test_delete() using the unittest module. It easily follows that test_list() and test_delete() will need to know the exact name that was created in test_create() in order to properly validate list() and delete(). One option is for test_create() to always use a hard coded name but unfortunately this is not feasible.
Another way would be for test_create() to pass the new name down to the next test case test_list() which would do the same and pass the name down to test_delete(). In other words, the requirement is to connect all three test cases in a kind of pipe. This facility is obviously not currently present in the unittest module and nor does it seem to be available in other frameworks (such as py.test and nose, I only skimmed the feature list). I am thinking of implementing this feature on top of unittest.TestCase and would like to know what others think of the idea. Is there a framework that has similar feature? Or perhaps, given my requirement as stated above, is there some alternate way of implementing it? I greatly appreciate any feed back. Thanks, Raghu -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list