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Crafting Test-Driven Software with Python

You're reading from   Crafting Test-Driven Software with Python Write test suites that scale with your applications' needs and complexity using Python and PyTest

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838642655
Length 338 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Alessandro Molina Alessandro Molina
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

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 17. Other Books You May Enjoy
Dynamic and Parametric Tests and Fixtures

In the previous chapter, we saw how pytest can be used to run our test suites, and how it provides some more advanced features that are unavailable in unittest by default. Python has seen multiple frameworks and libraries built on top of unittest to extend it with various features and utilities, but pytest has surely become the most widespread testing framework in the Python community. One of the reasons why pytest became so popular is its flexibility and support for dynamic behaviors. Apart from this, generating tests and fixtures dynamically or heavily changing test suite behavior are other features supported by pytest out of the box.

In this chapter, we are going to see how to configure a test suite and generate dynamic fixtures and dynamic or parametric tests. As your test suite grows, it will be important to be able to know which...

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