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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
Testing for the Web: WSGI versus HTTP

In the previous chapter, we saw how to test documentation and implement more advanced testing techniques in our test suites, such as property-based testing.

One of the primary use cases for Python has become web development. Python has many very effective and powerful web development frameworks. The most famous one is surely the Django web framework, but many more of them exist, including the Flask framework, the Pyramid framework, TurboGears2, and more. Each web framework has its own peculiarities and unique features that make it easy to build most of the different kinds of web applications using Python itself, but all of them share the same need of having to verify that the applications you built work properly and are tested. Thus in this chapter, we are going to see how we can test HTTP-based applications on both the client and server side...

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