Unit Tests with Iron Python

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"Testing is the engineering rigor of software development" - Neal Ford

Got a little tip from fuzzyman on using unittest for Unit Testing with Iron Python. Because I'm a slouch I had an old IronPython 1.1 release and kept getting a BaseException error when my tests failed.  The class has since been implemented and should work with the latest version of IronPython that you can download (I'm using a beta release of 2.0).

Here is the code from my unit tests, of course it's destined to change but I was in the mode of getting it to work with IronPython:

from Twining import *
import exceptions
import random
import unittest
import os

class TestSequenceFunctions(unittest.TestCase):
    
    def setUp(self):
        self.cn = "Data Source=.\\sqlexpress;Initial Catalog=MVCBaby;Integrated Security=SSPI;"

    def test_exportcsv(self):
        """ Export a CSV style data """
        outPath = "c:\\foo.csv"
        database(self.cn).table("Photos").copyto.csv(outPath)
        self.assert_(os.path.exists(outPath), "File was not created")
    
    def test_exportxmlattribstyle(self):
        """ Export xml data attribute style """
        outPath = "c:\\xml_as_attrib.xml"
        database(self.cn).table("Photos").copyto.xmlFieldsAsAttributes(outPath)
        self.assert_(os.path.exists(outPath), "File was not created")
        
    def test_exportxmlelementstyle(self):
        """ Export xml data attribute style """
        outPath = "c:\\xml_as_elem.xml"
        database(self.cn).table("Photos").copyto.xmlFieldsAsAttributes(outPath)
        self.assert_(os.path.exists(outPath), "File was not created")
    
    def tearDown(self):
        if os.path.exists("c:\\foo.csv"): os.remove("c:\\foo.csv")
        if os.path.exists("c:\\xml_as_attrib.xml"): os.remove("c:\\xml_as_attrib.xml")
        if os.path.exists("c:\\xml_as_elem.xml"): os.remove("c:\\xml_as_elem.xml")        
        
if __name__ == '__main__':
    unittest.main()

You can download this and the latest version of things from the new Twining page. 

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