Testing

In Chapter 10, Testing and Logging – Preparing for Bugs, we saw a few of the many testing systems for Python. As you might suspect, at least some of these have setup.py integration. It should be noted that setuptools even has a dedicated test command (at the time of writing), but this command has been deprecated and the setuptools documentation now recommends using tox. While I am a huge fan of tox, for immediate local development it often incurs quite a bit of overhead. I find that executing py.test directly is faster, because you can really quickly test only the bits of the code that you changed.

unittest

Before we start, we should create a test script for our package. For actual tests please look at Chapter 10; in this case, we will just use a no-op test, test.py:

import unittest

class Test(unittest.TestCase):
    def test(self):
        pass

The standard python setup.py test command has been deprecated, so we will run unittest directly:

$ python3...