Dart/Flutter: Share common setUp/tearDown methods among test suites

Question

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?

Answer 1

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> testExecutable(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