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Crafting Test-Driven Software with Python

By : Alessandro Molina
Book Image

Crafting Test-Driven Software with Python

By: Alessandro Molina

Overview of this book

Test-driven development (TDD) is a set of best practices that helps developers to build more scalable software and is used to increase the robustness of software by using automatic tests. This book shows you how to apply TDD practices effectively in Python projects. You’ll begin by learning about built-in unit tests and Mocks before covering rich frameworks like PyTest and web-based libraries such as WebTest and Robot Framework, discovering how Python allows you to embrace all modern testing practices with ease. Moving on, you’ll find out how to design tests and balance them with new feature development and learn how to create a complete test suite with PyTest. The book helps you adopt a hands-on approach to implementing TDD and associated methodologies that will have you up and running and make you more productive in no time. With the help of step-by-step explanations of essential concepts and practical examples, you’ll explore automatic tests and TDD best practices and get to grips with the methodologies and tools available in Python for creating effective and robust applications. By the end of this Python book, you will be able to write reliable test suites in Python to ensure the long-term resilience of your application using the range of libraries offered by Python for testing and development.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Section 1: Software Testing and Test-Driven Development
6
Section 2: PyTest for Python Testing
13
Section 3: Testing for the Web
16
About Packt

Summary

In this chapter, we saw the most frequently used plugins that exist for PyTest, those plugins that can make your life easier by taking charge of some frequent needs that nearly every test suite will face.

But there isn't any PyTest plugin that is able to manage the test environment itself. We are still forced to set up manually all dependencies that the tests have and ensure that the correct versions of Python are available to run the tests.

It would be great if there was a PyTest plugin able to install everything that we need in order to run our test suite and just "run tests" on a new environment. Well, the good news is that it exists; it's not strictly a PyTest plugin, but it's what Tox, which we are going to introduce in the next chapter, was designed for.