From 54c5bced5f449041db6810b4837fac1002b6b123 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stefan Wehr <stefan.wehr@hs-offenburg.de>
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2026 16:26:46 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] functionality for running unit tests

---
 python/code/wypp/__init__.py         |  3 ++-
 python/code/wypp/writeYourProgram.py | 10 ++++++++++
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/python/code/wypp/__init__.py b/python/code/wypp/__init__.py
index 024dd33..38ce591 100644
--- a/python/code/wypp/__init__.py
+++ b/python/code/wypp/__init__.py
@@ -69,10 +69,11 @@ def record(cls=None, mutable=False, globals={}, locals={}):
 # Exported names not available for star imports (in alphabetic order)
 Lock = w.Lock
 LockFactory = w.LockFactory
+deepEq = w.deepEq
 initModule = w.initModule
 printTestResults = w.printTestResults
 resetTestCount = w.resetTestCount
-deepEq = w.deepEq
+runUnittests = w.runUnittests
 wrapTypecheck = w.wrapTypecheck
 WyppTypeError = w.WyppTypeError
 WyppAttributeError = w.WyppAttributeError
diff --git a/python/code/wypp/writeYourProgram.py b/python/code/wypp/writeYourProgram.py
index e617799..218ebc2 100644
--- a/python/code/wypp/writeYourProgram.py
+++ b/python/code/wypp/writeYourProgram.py
@@ -317,6 +317,16 @@ def impossible(msg=None):
         'Das Unmögliche ist passiert!'
     raise errors.ImpossibleError(msg)
 
+def runUnittests(scope: dict[str, Any]):
+    import unittest
+    suite = unittest.TestSuite()
+    loader = unittest.TestLoader()
+    for item in scope.values():
+        if isinstance(item, type) and issubclass(item, unittest.TestCase):
+            if item is not unittest.TestCase:
+                suite.addTest(loader.loadTestsFromTestCase(item))
+    unittest.TextTestRunner(verbosity=2).run(suite)
+
 # Additional functions and aliases
 
 import math as moduleMath