Now that our unit test is complete, it's time to start writing the code that our test cases are attempting to test. We're going to do this in stages, so we can see all the unit tests fail, then watch them pass one by one as we fill in the gaps in roman.py.
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"""Convert to and from Roman numerals""" #Define exceptions class RomanError(Exception): passclass OutOfRangeError(RomanError): pass
class NotIntegerError(RomanError): pass class InvalidRomanNumeralError(RomanError): pass
def toRoman(n): """convert integer to Roman numeral""" pass
def fromRoman(s): """convert Roman numeral to integer""" pass
| | This is how you define your own custom exceptions in Python. Exceptions are classes, and you create your own by subclassing existing exceptions. It is strongly recommended (but not required) that you subclass Exception, which is the base class that all built-in exceptions inherit from. Here I am defining RomanError (inherited from Exception) to act as the base class for all my other custom exceptions to follow. This is a matter of style; I could just as easily have inherited each individual exception from the Exception class directly. |
| | The OutOfRangeError and NotIntegerError exceptions will eventually be used by toRoman to flag various forms of invalid input, as specified in ToRomanBadInput. |
| | The InvalidRomanNumeralError exception will eventually be used by fromRoman to flag invalid input, as specified in FromRomanBadInput. |
| | At this stage, we want to define the API of each of our functions, but we don't want to code them yet, so we stub them out using the Python reserved word pass. |
Now for the big moment (drum roll please): we're finally going to run our unit test against this stubby little module. At this point, every test case should fail. In fact, if any test case passes in stage 1, we should go back to romantest.py and re-evaluate why we coded a test so useless that it passes with do-nothing functions.
Run romantest1.py with the -v command-line option, which will give more verbose output so we can see exactly what's going on as each test case runs. With any luck, your output should look like this:
Example 6.8. Output of romantest1.py against roman1.py
fromRoman should only accept uppercase input ... ERROR toRoman should always return uppercase ... ERROR fromRoman should fail with malformed antecedents ... FAIL fromRoman should fail with repeated pairs of numerals ... FAIL fromRoman should fail with too many repeated numerals ... FAIL fromRoman should give known result with known input ... FAIL toRoman should give known result with known input ... FAIL fromRoman(toRoman(n))==n for all n ... FAIL toRoman should fail with non-integer input ... FAIL toRoman should fail with negative input ... FAIL toRoman should fail with large input ... FAIL toRoman should fail with 0 input ... FAIL ====================================================================== ERROR: fromRoman should only accept uppercase input ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\docbook\dip\py\roman\stage1\romantest1.py", line 154, in testFromRomanCase roman1.fromRoman(numeral.upper()) AttributeError: 'None' object has no attribute 'upper' ====================================================================== ERROR: toRoman should always return uppercase ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\docbook\dip\py\roman\stage1\romantest1.py", line 148, in testToRomanCase self.assertEqual(numeral, numeral.upper()) AttributeError: 'None' object has no attribute 'upper' ====================================================================== FAIL: fromRoman should fail with malformed antecedents ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\docbook\dip\py\roman\stage1\romantest1.py", line 133, in testMalformedAntecedent self.assertRaises(roman1.InvalidRomanNumeralError, roman1.fromRoman, s) File "c:\python21\lib\unittest.py", line 266, in failUnlessRaises raise self.failureException, excName AssertionError: InvalidRomanNumeralError ====================================================================== FAIL: fromRoman should fail with repeated pairs of numerals ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\docbook\dip\py\roman\stage1\romantest1.py", line 127, in testRepeatedPairs self.assertRaises(roman1.InvalidRomanNumeralError, roman1.fromRoman, s) File "c:\python21\lib\unittest.py", line 266, in failUnlessRaises raise self.failureException, excName AssertionError: InvalidRomanNumeralError ====================================================================== FAIL: fromRoman should fail with too many repeated numerals ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\docbook\dip\py\roman\stage1\romantest1.py", line 122, in testTooManyRepeatedNumerals self.assertRaises(roman1.InvalidRomanNumeralError, roman1.fromRoman, s) File "c:\python21\lib\unittest.py", line 266, in failUnlessRaises raise self.failureException, excName AssertionError: InvalidRomanNumeralError ====================================================================== FAIL: fromRoman should give known result with known input ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\docbook\dip\py\roman\stage1\romantest1.py", line 99, in testFromRomanKnownValues self.assertEqual(integer, result) File "c:\python21\lib\unittest.py", line 273, in failUnlessEqual raise self.failureException, (msg or '%s != %s' % (first, second)) AssertionError: 1 != None ====================================================================== FAIL: toRoman should give known result with known input ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\docbook\dip\py\roman\stage1\romantest1.py", line 93, in testToRomanKnownValues self.assertEqual(numeral, result) File "c:\python21\lib\unittest.py", line 273, in failUnlessEqual raise self.failureException, (msg or '%s != %s' % (first, second)) AssertionError: I != None ====================================================================== FAIL: fromRoman(toRoman(n))==n for all n ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\docbook\dip\py\roman\stage1\romantest1.py", line 141, in testSanity self.assertEqual(integer, result) File "c:\python21\lib\unittest.py", line 273, in failUnlessEqual raise self.failureException, (msg or '%s != %s' % (first, second)) AssertionError: 1 != None ====================================================================== FAIL: toRoman should fail with non-integer input ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\docbook\dip\py\roman\stage1\romantest1.py", line 116, in testDecimal self.assertRaises(roman1.NotIntegerError, roman1.toRoman, 0.5) File "c:\python21\lib\unittest.py", line 266, in failUnlessRaises raise self.failureException, excName AssertionError: NotIntegerError ====================================================================== FAIL: toRoman should fail with negative input ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\docbook\dip\py\roman\stage1\romantest1.py", line 112, in testNegative self.assertRaises(roman1.OutOfRangeError, roman1.toRoman, -1) File "c:\python21\lib\unittest.py", line 266, in failUnlessRaises raise self.failureException, excName AssertionError: OutOfRangeError ====================================================================== FAIL: toRoman should fail with large input ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\docbook\dip\py\roman\stage1\romantest1.py", line 104, in testTooLarge self.assertRaises(roman1.OutOfRangeError, roman1.toRoman, 4000) File "c:\python21\lib\unittest.py", line 266, in failUnlessRaises raise self.failureException, excName AssertionError: OutOfRangeError ====================================================================== FAIL: toRoman should fail with 0 input
| | Running the script runs unittest.main(), which runs each test case, which is to say each method defined in each class within romantest.py. For each test case, it prints out the doc string of the method and whether that test passed or failed. As expected, none of our test cases passed. |
| | For each failed test case, unittest displays the trace information showing exactly what happened. In this case, our call to assertRaises (also called failUnlessRaises) raised an AssertionError because it was expecting toRoman to raise an OutOfRangeError and it didn't. |
| | After the detail, unittest displays a summary of how many tests were performed and how long it took. |
| | Overall, the unit test failed because at least one test case did not pass. When a test case doesn't pass, unittest distinguishes between failures and errors. A failure is a call to an assertXYZ method, like assertEqual or assertRaises, that fails because the asserted condition is not true or the expected exception was not raised. An error is any other sort of exception raised in the code we're testing or the unit test case itself. For instance, the testFromRomanCase method (“fromRoman should only accept uppercase input”) was an error, because the call to numeral.upper() raised an AttributeError exception, because toRoman was supposed to return a string but didn't. But testZero (“toRoman should fail with 0 input”) was a failure, because the call to fromRoman did not raise the InvalidRomanNumeral exception that assertRaises was looking for. |