Dart/Flutter: Share common setUp/tearDown methods among test suites
Create a file called flutter_test_config.dart
in the same directory as your test (or at a higher level, it'll affect all tests in that directory and below).
In that file, you can then call the setUp
and tearDown
methods before your test file's main
method runs:
import 'dart:async';
import 'package:flutter_test/flutter_test.dart';
Future<void> main(FutureOr<void> Function() testMain) async {
setUp(() {
print('Shared setUp');
});
tearDown(() {
print('Shared tearDown');
});
await testMain();
}
Documentation: https://api.flutter.dev/flutter/flutter_test/flutter_test-library.html
daveoncode
Updated on December 17, 2022Comments
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daveoncode over 1 year
Is there a way to share common setUp/tearDown methods and other helper methods among tests in Dart/Flutter? Usually in other languages/frameworks, like Java or Python, tests are defined in classes which can be extended, but the way Dart approaches testing by using functions inside a main method lets me perplexed. For instance I'm testing io methods, I have the following piece of code in my test:
Directory tempDir; setUp(() async { tempDir = await Directory.systemTemp.createTemp(); const MethodChannel('plugins.flutter.io/path_provider').setMockMethodCallHandler((MethodCall methodCall) async { if (methodCall.method == 'getApplicationDocumentsDirectory') { return tempDir.path; } return null; }); }); tearDown(() async { tempDir.delete(recursive: true); });
If it were any other language I would create a base class or a mixin called
TempDirTestCase
in which to put the code for the creation/deletion of the temporary directory, then each suite that need such functions would have just to inherit from it... but what I'm supposed to do in dart/flutter to reuse the code and avoid copy/paste?