To assert or assertEqual in Python unit testing

Peter Bengtsson February 15, 2009 Reply

No, the summary is the same me thinks. Take this example code:
http://docs.python.org/library/unittest.html#basic-example

Fiddle it so that the assertEquals on line 13 fails (e.g. change range(10) to range(11)) and run it and you'll get this result:
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Ran 3 tests in 0.001s

FAILED (failures=1)

Now, edit it again and replace the self.assertEquals with a normal assert and run it again and you'll get this result:
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Ran 3 tests in 0.001s

FAILED (failures=1)

Victor Noagbodji February 15, 2009

I think one of the benefit of using the module methods are the analysis you can get at the end of tests. How many passed, failed, etc...