Mandatory setUp & tearDown upcalling makes migrating to testtools harder #542

Migrated from Launchpad: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1514540

Original Reporter: Jonathan Lange
Date Created: 2015-11-09 18:13:57.489354+00:00
Status on Launchpad: Triaged
Importance: Wishlist

Related to #344023

If you're changing the base class of an existing test suite to testtools, then you have to go through and fix every single definition of setUp & tearDown (or do something nasty with private variables).

Maybe this is a feature, but it does make adoption harder than it could be.