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diff --git a/Doc/library/unittest.rst b/Doc/library/unittest.rst index e7e3262..f13100c 100644 --- a/Doc/library/unittest.rst +++ b/Doc/library/unittest.rst @@ -644,10 +644,8 @@ Test cases kinds of failure. Each instance of :class:`TestCase` will run a single base method: the method - named *methodName*. However, the standard implementation of the default - *methodName*, ``runTest()``, will run every method starting with ``test`` - as an individual test, and count successes and failures accordingly. - Therefore, in most uses of :class:`TestCase`, you will neither change + named *methodName*. + In most uses of :class:`TestCase`, you will neither change the *methodName* nor reimplement the default ``runTest()`` method. .. versionchanged:: 3.2 @@ -1551,6 +1549,12 @@ Loading and running tests Return a suite of all tests cases contained in the :class:`TestCase`\ -derived :class:`testCaseClass`. + A test case instance is created for each method named by + :meth:`getTestCaseNames`. By default these are the method names + beginning with ``test``. If :meth:`getTestCaseNames` returns no + methods, but the :meth:`runTest` method is implemented, a single test + case is created for that method instead. + .. method:: loadTestsFromModule(module) |