help with tests

I have a set of classes for UI testing. There's an abstract super class that defines abstract methods for testing (title, classtotest, model etc). Then each subclass defines its own tests. It works so far until I have each subclass defining each its own specific tests. Now, I need to add a test that is common to all subclasses so a candidate to be placed in the super class, but my superclass only defines a framework for tests, hence this test wont have the data to execute the test and this would not execute correctly in my abstract super class.

My questions: 1) Is there anyway to say not to execute the tests in the abstract class. 2) inherit tests from an abstract super class?

Apparently, #shouldInheritSelectors does not work for abstract classes or I am not understanding some design rules.

tx,

usman