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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

Generating tests with parametric tests

Sometimes you find yourself writing the same check over and over for multiple configurations. Instead, it would be convenient if we could write the test only once and provide the configurations in a declarative way.

That's exactly what @pytest.mark.parametrize allows us to do: to generate tests based on a template function and the various configurations that have to be provided.

For example, in our fizzbuzz software, we could have two isbuzz and isfizz checks that verify whether the provided number should lead us to print the "buzz" or "fizz" strings. Like always, we want to write a test that drives the implementation of those two little blocks of our software, and the tests might look like this:

def test_isfizz():
assert isfizz(1) is False
assert isfizz(3) is True
assert isfizz(4) is False
assert isfizz(6) is True


def test_isbuzz():
assert isbuzz(1) is False
assert isbuzz(3) is False
assert isbuzz(5)...