How To Unittest Unittest TestCases

I have a unittest.TestCase child, which defines several domain specific assert Checks. I would like to run some unittests to unittest this functionality to control that everything

Solution 1:

Not sure if there's anything Jython specific that would break this, but I would do something like this:

import StringIO
import unittest


# The TestCase subclass to test    
class MyBaseTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
    def assertSpec(self, thing):
        assert thing == 123


# The testcase for MyBaseTestCase
class TestMyTest(unittest.TestCase):
    def test_assetSpec(self):
        """Ensure assertSpec works
        """

        class _TestSpec(MyBaseTestCase):
            def test_failure_case(self):
                 self.assertSpec(121)
            def test_success_case(self):
                 self.assertSpec(123)

        # Load tests from _TestSpec
        loader = unittest.TestLoader()
        suite = loader.loadTestsFromTestCase(_TestSpec)

        # Create runner, and run _TestSpec
        io = StringIO.StringIO()
        runner = unittest.TextTestRunner(stream = io)
        results = runner.run(suite)

        # Should be one failed test, and one passed test
        self.assertEquals(results.testsRun, 2)
        self.assertEquals(len(results.failures), 1)

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