Getting started with IronPython - Part 3: unit testing

This is the third part of Dror Helper's series on getting started with IronPython. Part 1 was on first steps, including useful references. Part 2 focused on the Python programming language, introducing an example game project that Dror is using to learn IronPython. As promised part 3 is on testing the game with the Python unittest module.

• Getting started with IronPython - Part 3: unit testing

Being a TDD’er (Test Driven Developer) one of the first things I’ve searched for when I started learning IronPython is a unit testing framework, luckily for me I didn’t need to search too long.

IronPython has a good unit testing framework inherited from Python called PyUnit.

Writing unit tests using PyUnit is simple:

1. import unittest class
2. Create a class that inherits unittest.TestCase (test fixture)
3. Write test methods using assertions methods