From: "Luke St.Clair" <secureboot@...>
Date: 2009-03-26T08:36:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Test::Unit - same test, different "args"

On Mar 25, 4:29 pm, "Luke St.Clair" <secureb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 24, 12:39 pm, "Luke St.Clair" <secureb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I think this is what I'm going to go with - I'll have a test case for
> > each possible param value (there are about 10), and each one will set
> > a few additional global variables.  Then, each test case will include
> > the same module, which will call functions with params set by the
> > global variables.
>
> The biggest issue I'm running into right now is not having startup(),
> or code that runs once per test suite, not once per test case.
>
> Is this in test::unit yet?

Better yet, is there some way to get around this?

Right now, I have like 8 test suite files, which do something like:

initialize_things(foo)

class MyTester < Test::Unit::TestCase
  include cases1
  include cases2
end

This works fine if I run the file directly, but I want a "master" test
runner that would require MyTester, MyOtherTester, MyFinalTester,
etc.  In this case, initialize_things doesn't get called.

How can I replicate this startup() functionality that I need?  I do
NOT want to use setup(), as it slows things down considerably.