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pytest Quick Start Guide

By : Bruno Oliveira
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pytest Quick Start Guide

By: Bruno Oliveira

Overview of this book

Python's standard unittest module is based on the xUnit family of frameworks, which has its origins in Smalltalk and Java, and tends to be verbose to use and not easily extensible.The pytest framework on the other hand is very simple to get started, but powerful enough to cover complex testing integration scenarios, being considered by many the true Pythonic approach to testing in Python. In this book, you will learn how to get started right away and get the most out of pytest in your daily work?ow, exploring powerful mechanisms and plugins to facilitate many common testing tasks. You will also see how to use pytest in existing unittest-based test suites and will learn some tricks to make the jump to a pytest-style test suite quickly and easily.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)

Using pytest as a test runner

One thing that surprisingly many people don't know is that pytest can run unittest suites out of the box, without any modifications.

For example:

class Test(unittest.TestCase):

@classmethod
def setUpClass(cls):
cls.temp_dir = Path(tempfile.mkdtemp())
cls.filepath = cls.temp_dir / "data.csv"
cls.filepath.write_text(DATA.strip())

@classmethod
def tearDownClass(cls):
shutil.rmtree(cls.temp_dir)

def setUp(self):
self.grids = list(iter_grids_from_csv(self.filepath))

def test_read_properties(self):
self.assertEqual(self.grids[0], GridData("Main Grid", 48, 44))
self.assertEqual(self.grids[1], GridData("2nd Grid", 24, 21))
self.assertEqual(self.grids[2], GridData("3rd Grid", 24, 48))

def test_invalid_path(self):
with self.assertRaises...