Nose enhances
unittest
by providing test fixtures at the package and module levels. The package setup
function is run before any of the tests in any of the modules in a package, while the teardown
function is run after all of the tests in all of the modules in the package have completed. Similarly, the module setup
function is run before any of the tests in a given module have been executed, and the module teardown
function is executed after all of the tests in the module have been executed.
We're going to build a test module with a module-level fixture. In the fixture, we'll replace the datetime.date.today
function, which normally returns an object representing the current date. We want it to return a specific value, so that our tests can know what to expect. Perform the following steps:
Create a directory called
tests
.Within the
tests
directory, create a file calledmodule_fixture_tests.py
containing the following code:from unittest import...