Unit-testing with dependencies between tests

Question

How do you do unit testing when you have

• some general unit tests
• more sophisticated tests checking edge cases, depending on the general ones

Answer 1

Proboscis is a python version of TestNG (which is a Java library).

See packages.python.org/proboscis/

It supports dependencies, e.g.

@test(depends_on=[test_readCsv])
public void test_readCsv_duplicateColumnName() {
   ...
}