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Crafting Test-Driven Software with Python

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Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781838642655

Length 338 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

pytest

Concepts

Test Driven Development

Author (1):

Alessandro Molina

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Software Testing and Test-Driven Development

2. Getting Started with Software Testing FREE CHAPTER

3. Test Doubles with a Chat Application

4. Test-Driven Development while Creating a TODO List

5. Scaling the Test Suite

6. Section 2: PyTest for Python Testing

7. Introduction to PyTest

8. Dynamic and Parametric Tests and Fixtures

9. Fitness Function with a Contact Book Application

10. PyTest Essential Plugins

11. Managing Test Environments with Tox

12. Testing Documentation and Property-Based Testing

13. Section 3: Testing for the Web

14. Testing for the Web: WSGI versus HTTP

15. End-to-End Testing with the Robot Framework

16. About Packt

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17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Preface

This book covers testing and test-driven development practices, introducing you to the most widespread tools and concepts that are common in the software testing community, using both the Python native unittest module and the pytest framework.

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Authors (1)

Molina

Molina

Alessandro Molina has been a Python developer since 2001, and has always been interested in Python as a web development platform. He has worked as a CTO and a team leader of Python teams for the past 10 years and is currently the core developer of the TurboGears2 web framework and the maintainer of the Beaker caching/session framework. He authored the DEPOT file storage framework and the DukPy JavaScript interpreter for Python and has collaborated on various Python projects related to web development, such as FormEncode, ToscaWidgets, and the Ming MongoDB ORM.

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