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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)

Summary

We have discussed a few strategies and tips on how to use pytest in unittest-based suites of various sizes. We started with a discussion about using pytest as a test runner, and which features work with TestCase tests. We looked at how to use the unittest2pytest tool to convert self.assert* methods to plain assert statements and take full advantage of pytest introspection features. Then, we learned a few techniques on how to migrate unittest-based setUp/tearDown code to pytest-style in test classes, manage functionality spread in test hierarchies, and general utilities. Finally, we wrapped up the chapter with an overview of the possible migration strategies that you can take for test suites of various sizes.

In the next chapter, we will see a quick summary of what we have learned in this book, and discuss what else might be in store for us.

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