Continuing in Python's unittest when an assertion fails

Question

EDIT: switched to a better example, and clarified why this is a real problem.

I\'d like to write unit tests in Python that continue executing when an assertion fails

Answer 1

I had a problem with the answer from @Anthony Batchelor because it would have forced me to use try...catch inside my unit tests. Instead, I encapsulated the try...catch logic in an override of the TestCase.assertEqual method. Here is the code:

import unittest
import traceback

class AssertionErrorData(object):

    def __init__(self, stacktrace, message):
        super(AssertionErrorData, self).__init__()
        self.stacktrace = stacktrace
        self.message = message

class MultipleAssertionFailures(unittest.TestCase):

    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        self.verificationErrors = []
        super(MultipleAssertionFailures, self).__init__( *args, **kwargs )

    def tearDown(self):
        super(MultipleAssertionFailures, self).tearDown()

        if self.verificationErrors:
            index = 0
            errors = []

            for error in self.verificationErrors:
                index += 1
                errors.append( "%s\nAssertionError %s: %s" % ( 
                        error.stacktrace, index, error.message ) )

            self.fail( '\n\n' + "\n".join( errors ) )
            self.verificationErrors.clear()

    def assertEqual(self, goal, results, msg=None):

        try:
            super( MultipleAssertionFailures, self ).assertEqual( goal, results, msg )

        except unittest.TestCase.failureException as error:
            goodtraces = self._goodStackTraces()
            self.verificationErrors.append( 
                    AssertionErrorData( "\n".join( goodtraces[:-2] ), error ) )

    def _goodStackTraces(self):
        """
            Get only the relevant part of stacktrace.
        """
        stop = False
        found = False
        goodtraces = []

        # stacktrace = traceback.format_exc()
        # stacktrace = traceback.format_stack()
        stacktrace = traceback.extract_stack()

        # https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54499367/how-to-correctly-override-testcase
        for stack in stacktrace:
            filename = stack.filename

            if found and not stop and \
                    not filename.find( 'lib' ) < filename.find( 'unittest' ):
                stop = True

            if not found and filename.find( 'lib' ) < filename.find( 'unittest' ):
                found = True

            if stop and found:
                stackline = '  File "%s", line %s, in %s\n    %s' % ( 
                        stack.filename, stack.lineno, stack.name, stack.line )
                goodtraces.append( stackline )

        return goodtraces

# class DummyTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
class DummyTestCase(MultipleAssertionFailures):

    def setUp(self):
        self.maxDiff = None
        super(DummyTestCase, self).setUp()

    def tearDown(self):
        super(DummyTestCase, self).tearDown()

    def test_function_name(self):
        self.assertEqual( "var", "bar" )
        self.assertEqual( "1937", "511" )

if __name__ == '__main__':
    unittest.main()

Result output:

F
======================================================================
FAIL: test_function_name (__main__.DummyTestCase)
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "D:\User\Downloads\test.py", line 77, in tearDown
    super(DummyTestCase, self).tearDown()
  File "D:\User\Downloads\test.py", line 29, in tearDown
    self.fail( '\n\n' + "\n\n".join( errors ) )
AssertionError: 

  File "D:\User\Downloads\test.py", line 80, in test_function_name
    self.assertEqual( "var", "bar" )
AssertionError 1: 'var' != 'bar'
- var
? ^
+ bar
? ^
 : 

  File "D:\User\Downloads\test.py", line 81, in test_function_name
    self.assertEqual( "1937", "511" )
AssertionError 2: '1937' != '511'
- 1937
+ 511
 : 

More alternative solutions for the correct stacktrace capture could be posted on How to correctly override TestCase.assertEqual(), producing the right stacktrace?