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Mastering Python Networking

You're reading from   Mastering Python Networking Your one-stop solution to using Python for network automation, DevOps, and Test-Driven Development

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789135992
Length 466 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Preface 1. Review of TCP/IP Protocol Suite and Python FREE CHAPTER 2. Low-Level Network Device Interactions 3. APIs and Intent-Driven Networking 4. The Python Automation Framework – Ansible Basics 5. The Python Automation Framework – Beyond Basics 6. Network Security with Python 7. Network Monitoring with Python – Part 1 8. Network Monitoring with Python – Part 2 9. Building Network Web Services with Python 10. AWS Cloud Networking 11. Working with Git 12. Continuous Integration with Jenkins 13. Test-Driven Development for Networks 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

More on Python testing

In addition to the built-in library of unittest, there are lots of other Python testing frameworks in the community. Pytest is another robust Python testing framework that is worth a look. pytest can be used for all types and levels of software testing. It can be used by developers, QA engineers, individuals practicing Test-Driven Development, and open source projects. Many of the large-scale open source projects have switched from unittest or nose to pytest, including Mozilla and Dropbox. The main attractive features of pytest were a third-party plugin model, a simple fixture model, and assert rewriting.

If you want to learn more about the pytest framework, I would highly recommend Python Testing with PyTest by Brian Okken (ISBN 978-1-68050-240-4). Another great source is the pytest documentation: https://docs.pytest.org/en/latest/.

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