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Daniel Arbuckle???s Mastering Python

You're reading from   Daniel Arbuckle???s Mastering Python Build powerful Python applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787283695
Length 274 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Python Primer FREE CHAPTER 2. Setting Up 3. Making a Package 4. Basic Best Practices 5. Making a Command-Line Utility 6. Parallel Processing 7. Coroutines and Asynchronous I/O 8. Metaprogramming 9. Unit Testing 10. Reactive Programming 11. Microservices 12. Extension Modules and Compiled Code

Using the unittest package

In this section, we're going to look at Python's standard unittest package. We'll talk about how to structure a test file and how to write tests and draw a comparison between what happens and what should happen in these tests. Let's jump straight into it!

Structuring a test file

The unittest module contains a framework for performing automated unit testing. Most of this functionality is based around the unittest.TestCase class, which we will inherit from to create our own tests.

In the following example, we see the basic features of TestCase in action and also test and assert methods:

Any method that we define using a class inherited from TestCase, and that has a name that starts...

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