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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

Enabling continuous integration

Wouldn't it be convenient if someone else was in charge of running all our tests every time we made a change to our code base? This would mean that we couldn't forget to run some specific tests just because they were related to an area of the code that we were not directly touching.

That's exactly the goal of Continuous Integration (CI) environments. Every time we push our changes to the code repository, these environments will notice and rerun the tests, usually merging our changes with the changes from our colleagues to make sure they cope well together.

If you have a code repository on GitHub, using Travis as your CI is a fairly straightforward process. Suppose that I made an amol-/travistest GitHub project where I pushed the code base of our chat application; to enable Travis, the first thing that I have to do is to go to https://travis-ci.com/ and log in with my GitHub credentials:

Figure 4.1 – Travis CI Sign in page

Once we...

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