How do you generate dynamic (parameterized) unit tests in python?

Question

I have some kind of test data and want to create a unit test for each item. My first idea was to do it like this:

import unittest

l = [[\"foo\", \"a\", \"a\         


        

Answer 1

You can use TestSuite and custom TestCase classes.

import unittest

class CustomTest(unittest.TestCase):
    def __init__(self, name, a, b):
        super().__init__()
        self.name = name
        self.a = a
        self.b = b

    def runTest(self):
        print("test", self.name)
        self.assertEqual(self.a, self.b)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    suite = unittest.TestSuite()
    suite.addTest(CustomTest("Foo", 1337, 1337))
    suite.addTest(CustomTest("Bar", 0xDEAD, 0xC0DE))
    unittest.TextTestRunner().run(suite)