Chapter 22. Dealing with Failure

Invoke test methodInvoke setUp firstInvoke tearDown afterwardInvoke tearDown even if the test method failsRun multiple testsReport collected resultsLog string in WasRunReport failed tests

We'll write a smaller grained test to ensure that if we note a failed test, we print out the right results:

TestCaseTest
 def testFailedResultFormatting(self):
					result= TestResult()
					result.testStarted()
					result.testFailed()
					assert("1 run, 1 failed" == result.summary())

“testStarted()” and “testFailed()” are the messages we expect to send to the result when a test starts and when a test fails, respectively. If we can get the summary to print correctly when these messages are sent in this order, then our programming ...

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