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Python Microservices Development

You're reading from   Python Microservices Development Build, test, deploy, and scale microservices in Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785881114
Length 340 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Understanding Microservices 2. Discovering Flask FREE CHAPTER 3. Coding, Testing, and Documenting - the Virtuous Cycle 4. Designing Runnerly 5. Interacting with Other Services 6. Monitoring Your Services 7. Securing Your Services 8. Bringing It All Together 9. Packaging and Running Runnerly 10. Containerized Services 11. Deploying on AWS 12. What Next?

Using pytest and Tox

So far, all the tests we have written used ;unittest.TestCase classes and unittest.main() to run them. As your project grows, you will have more and more tests modules around.

To automatically discover and run all the tests in a project, the unittest package has introduced a Test Discovery feature in Python 3.2, which finds and runs tests given a few options. This feature has been around for a while in projects like Nose (https://nose.readthedocs.io) and pytest, and that's what inspired the unittest package in the standard library.

Which runner to use is a matter of taste, and as long as you stick to writing your tests in TestCase classes, your tests will be compatible with all of them.

That said, the pytest project is very popular in the Python community, and since it offers extensions, people have started to write useful tools around it. Its runner...

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