I am writing some unit tests with Python 2.7 (using unittest framework) for a service that can work with some objects.
To make it simple, say I want to test methods that create, rename, delete etc. folders.
class TestFolderMethods(unittest.TestCase):
'''testing folders'''
#----------------------------------------------------------------------
def setUp(self):
"""prepare for tests"""
#----------------------------------------------------------------------
def test_create_folder(self):
"""creates a new folder"""
#create folder code; check it's in the list of folders
#----------------------------------------------------------------------
def test_delete_folder(self):
"""deletes a folder"""
#delete folder code; check it's not in the list of folders
I understand that the tests will be run in a certain order that is determined by sorting the test function names with respect to the built-in ordering for strings.
I am aware of monolithic tests, execution order modification, and setUp/tearDown methods.
Is it acceptable to put the "create folder" code into the test_delete_folder method? That is, I need to create a dummy folder first before I can test to delete it.
There will be lots of similar operations on other objects (create, modify, delete), so I am looking for the best way to organize my code.
