Further reading

The Python unit testing module contains very detailed documentation. It is available here: https://docs.python.org/3/library/unittest.html#module-unittest.

The nosetests tool supports many options and can also be set with a configuration file. Its documentation is available here: https://nose.readthedocs.io/en/latest/man.html.

The logging module documentation is also quite complete, and can be found here: https://docs.python.org/3.6/howto/logging.html#logging-basic-tutorial.