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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

Summary

We saw how acceptance tests can be used to make clear what we want to build and guide us step by step through what we have to build next, while lower-level tests, such as unit and integration tests, can be used to tell us how we want to build it and how we want the various pieces to work together.

In this case, our application was fairly small, so we used the acceptance test to verify the integration of our pieces. However, in the real world, as we grow the various parts of our infrastructure, we will have to introduce tests to confirm they are able to work together and the reason is their intercommunication protocol.

Once we found a bug, we also saw how regression tests can help us design fixes and how they can prevent the same bug from happening again in the long term.

During any stage of software development, the Design, Implementation, and Maintenance workflow helps us better understand what we are trying to do and thus get the right software, code, and bug fixes in place...

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