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+#! /usr/bin/env python3
+#
+# Gramps - a GTK+/GNOME based genealogy program
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2016 Gramps Development Team
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301  USA
+#
+
+import unittest
+import os
+
+from gramps.test.test_util import Gramps
+
+ddir = os.path.dirname(__file__)
+example = os.path.join(ddir, "..", "..", "..",
+                       "example", "gramps", "data.gramps")
+
+TREE_NAME = "Test_reporttest"
+
+class ReportControl(object):
+    def tearDown(self):
+        out, err = self.call("-y", "--remove", TREE_NAME)
+
+    def call(self, *args):
+        print("call:", args)
+        self.gramps = Gramps()
+        out, err = self.gramps.run(*args)
+        print("out:", out, "err:", err)
+        return out, err
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.tearDown() # removes it if it existed
+        out, err = self.call("-C", TREE_NAME, 
+                             "--import", example)
+        out, err = self.call("-O", TREE_NAME, 
+                             "--action", "report", 
+                             "--options", "show=all")
+        self.reports = []
+        for line in err.split("\n"):
+            if line.startswith("   "):
+                report_name, description = line.split("- ", 1)
+                self.reports.append(report_name.strip())
+
+    def testall(self, class_):
+        count = 0
+        print(self.reports)
+        for report_name in self.reports:
+            print("add attr:", report_name)
+            setattr(class_, "test_%s" % count, dynamic_method(
+                "--force",
+                "-O", TREE_NAME, 
+                "--action", "report", 
+                "--options", "name=%s" % report_name))
+            count += 1
+
+    def addtest(self, class_, report_name, test_function, options):
+        test_name = report_name.replace("-", "_")
+        setattr(class_, test_name, dynamic_method(
+            report_name,
+            test_function,
+            "--force",
+            "-O", TREE_NAME, 
+            "--action", "report", 
+            "--options", "name=%s,%s" % (report_name, options)))
+
+def dynamic_method(report_name, test_function, *args):
+    # This needs to have "test" in name:
+    def test_method(self):
+        out, err = self.call(*args)
+        self.assertTrue(test_function(out, err, report_name))
+    return test_method
+
+class TestDynamic(unittest.TestCase):
+    @classmethod
+    def call(cls, *args):
+        print("call:", args)
+        gramps = Gramps()
+        out, err = gramps.run(*args)
+        print("out:", out, "err:", err)
+        return out, err
+
+    @classmethod
+    def tearDownClass(cls):
+        out, err = cls.call("-y", "--remove", TREE_NAME)
+
+reports = ReportControl()
+
+# If you could run all reports in a standard way:
+#reports.testall(TestDynamic)
+
+def output_contains(text):
+    def test_output_file(out, err, report_name):
+        contents = open(report_name + ".txt").read()
+        print(contents)
+        return text in contents
+    return test_output_file
+
+reports.addtest(TestDynamic, "tag_report", 
+                output_contains("I0037  Smith, Edwin Michael"),
+                'off=txt,tag=tag1')
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    unittest.main()