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Hands-On Test Driven Development with Python [Video]

By : Richard Wells
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Hands-On Test Driven Development with Python [Video]

By: Richard Wells

Overview of this book

Do you want to be one of the core developers at your company—the person that everyone wants on their team, and who can deliver new features that work on time? Unit Testing and Test-Driven Development (TDD) are key disciplines that can help you achieve that goal. In this video tutorial, you’ll learn about the PyTest testing library and how it’s used to write unit tests in Python. You’ll also set up some common Python development environments to use PyTest. You’ll create isolated test environments with Test Doubles and learn how to implement and use them with unittest.mock. Moving on, you’ll get to know some of the best practices in Unit Testing and TDD and get some hands-on experience with programming by implementing unit tests using TDD in Python. By the end of this course, you’ll be able to apply the practices of Unit Testing and TDD on a daily basis to radically increase the quality of your code and help you and your company achieve your goals faster than ever before. All the code and supporting files for this course are available on Github at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/-Hands-on-Test-Driven-Development-with-Python
Table of Contents (5 chapters)
Chapter 4
Creating an Isolated Test Environment with Test Doubles
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Section 1
Test Doubles and the unittest.mock Framework
In this video, we go over what test doubles are and how they help you test your production code in isolation. Then we’ll go over how to use the unittest.mock mocking framework and the PyTest monkeypatch TestFixture for easily implementing test doubles in your tests. - Learn what the different types of test doubles are and how they are used to help write unit tests - Learn about the unittest.mock framework and it’s ability to create mock objects - Learn about the monkeypatch utility for replacing existing code with test doubles