From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2007-02-27T05:40:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Test::Unit: setup per TestCase class or per suite

On 2/26/07, Michael Schuerig <michael@schuerig.de> wrote:
> On Monday 26 February 2007, Robert Dober wrote:
> > On 2/26/07, Michael Schuerig <michael@schuerig.de> wrote:
> > > For a performance test I need to populate the database with a large
> > > number of records. The individual test cases only read the database
> > > contents. It is rather time consuming and, after all, unnecessary
> > > to do a full setup and teardown for each test case. I'd much prefer
> > > a clean way to do setup and teardown once for the entire TestCase
> > > subclass. AFAIR, in JUnit, there is a decorator for just this
> > > purpose. Is there something similar for Test::Unit?
>
> > I always use constants for that kind of problems.
> > For what you hide behind the constants is of course a matter of taste
> > sometimes I do something like the following, but that is just like
> > me.
> >
> > class << DatabaseProxy = Class.new
> >    <init code>
> >     def whatever...
> >     end
> >     def play_it_again_sam
> >     end
> >     def etcetc
> > end
> >
> > class X < Test::Unit::TestCase
> >
> >    def testxxx...
> >          DatabaseProxy.whatever
> >
> > ...
> > end
>
> You've lost me there. I don't understand how this is supposed to work,
> in particular, how it achieves my aim of setting up and tearing down
> the database only once per suite.
>
> Are you using the initialization of the constant to set up the database?
> I'm not sure that this approach plays nicely with multiple test suites
> run by rake.
>
I was trying to impress the girls ;)

X = File.readlines("/etc/passwd")
class Test...

   def test
      X is here for you all the time

end

Is this better?

Cheers
Robert
> Michael
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