Does pytest parametrized test work with unittest class based tests?
According to pytest documentation:
unittest.TestCase methods cannot directly receive fixture function arguments as implementing that is likely to inflict on the ability to run general unittest.TestCase test suites.
There's a simple workaround to parameterize unittest-based Python tests by using "parameterized": https://pypi.org/project/parameterized/
Here's a simple example. First install "parameterized": pip install parameterized==0.8.1
import unittest
from parameterized import parameterized
class MyTestClass(unittest.TestCase):
@parameterized.expand([
["One", "Two"],
["Three", "Four"],
["Five", "Six"],
])
def test_parameterized(self, arg1, arg2):
print(arg1, arg2)
Now you can easily run your code with pytest
I've successfully used this technique to parameterize selenium browser tests that use the SeleniumBase framework on GitHub in this example.