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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

Generating tests with parametric tests

Sometimes you find yourself writing the same check over and over for multiple configurations. Instead, it would be convenient if we could write the test only once and provide the configurations in a declarative way.

That's exactly what @pytest.mark.parametrize allows us to do: to generate tests based on a template function and the various configurations that have to be provided.

For example, in our fizzbuzz software, we could have two isbuzz and isfizz checks that verify whether the provided number should lead us to print the "buzz" or "fizz" strings. Like always, we want to write a test that drives the implementation of those two little blocks of our software, and the tests might look like this:

def test_isfizz():
assert isfizz(1) is False
assert isfizz(3) is True
assert isfizz(4) is False
assert isfizz(6) is True


def test_isbuzz():
assert isbuzz(1) is False
assert isbuzz(3) is False
assert isbuzz(5)...
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