From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2007-02-28T06:46:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Test::Unit and one-time setup and teardown

On 2/27/07, Ara Vartanian <ara_vartanian@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know of a way of performing one-time setup and teardown per Test::Unit::TestCase?
>
> I have an integration test with an external component where, unfortunately, mocking out a server response is not feasible. So I need to mount a servlet to interact with my test. It would be pointless and slow to do this once for every test method. I know other unit testing frameworks define such callbacks. Does Test::Unit? If not, is there a clever way of getting around it?
>
> I am using Rails's 'test/helper', so I'm not instantiating my own test harness.  Obviously, I can setup any needed resources in the class scope of the unit test itself, BUT that still doesn't give me a callback for teardown.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> -- Ara Vartanian
>
>
D�j� vu ???
As I pointed out in the previous thread I do my setup in some constant
accessible way, e.g. in a module or class or on script level.

Let us assume that I have a testobject that supports setup and teardown
...
MyTestObj = Testobject.new
MyTestObj.setup

class Tester < test::unit::Testcase
etc
etc

for teardown you have to experiment with at_exit but I hope, please
test it though
that

at_exit do
  MyTestObj.teardown
end

is *not* executed before the execution of the Testsuit by the
testrunner, not sure alas.
You can still write a pseudo testcase for the teardown but I agree
that this is a pain.

HTH
Robert
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