Giving parameters into TestCase from Suite in python

Question

From python documentation(http://docs.python.org/library/unittest.html):

import unittest

class WidgetTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
    def setUp(self):
              


        

Answer 1

I don't believe so, the signature for setUp needs to be what unittest is expecting, afaik, setUp is automagically called within the testcase's run method as setUp()... you're not going to be able to pass it unless you override run to pass in the var you want. But I think what you want defeats the purpose of unit testing. Don't try to use a DRY philosophy with this, each unit you're testing should be a part of a class or even part of a function/method.