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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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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

Introducing the Robot Framework

The Robot Framework is an automation framework mostly used to create acceptance tests in the Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) and Behavior Driven Development (BDD) styles. Tests are written in a custom, natural English-like language that can be easily extended in Python, so Robot can, in theory, be used to write any kind of acceptance tests in a format that can be shared with other stakeholders, pretty much like what we have seen we can do with pytest-bdd in previous chapters.

The primary difference is that Robot is not based on PyTest, it is a replacement for PyTest, and is widely used to create end-to-end tests for mobile and web applications. For mobile applications, the Appium library allows us to write Robot Framework tests that control mobile applications on a real device, while the Selenium library provides a complete integration with web browsers, which means that the Robot Framework allows us to write tests that drive a real web browser...

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