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Python’s object-oriented design features allows allow considerable flexibility in how we design and structure our suite definition.

Each suite will have a different set of forces which that determine how it should be designed.

Lets Let's consider how we would design the tutorial examples in a more object-oriented manner. We start with some design criteria we must meet.

• The default variables (ECF_HOME, etc) must be configurable and independent of the suites
• New suites must enable automatic job creation checking
• We need to write out definition as a separate file
• New suites should be able to re-use the “boiler plate” “boilerplate” code defined by the above requirements

Here is a possible design, that uses inheritance and the template design pattern:

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