Overview
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Learn the fundamentals of unit testing in Python projects. Explore techniques for test-driven development of a Python project using the pytest framework and a Docker container.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Python unit testing with pytest
- Why pytest?
- Roadmap
- Exercise files
- Docker and VS Code (Mac)
- Docker and VS Code (PC)
- Running pytest with Docker
- Overview of TDD
- Basic tests and assertions
- Exceptions
- Challenge: Exceptions
- Solution: Exceptions
- Happy path testing
- Sad path testing
- Fixtures to amortize costly operations
- Factory fixtures
- Parametrization
- Challenge: Parametrization
- Solution: Parameterization
- Using Conftest.py for common functions
- Modularizing conftest.py
- Reading tests to surmise behavior
- Challenge: Adding test coverage
- Solution: Adding test coverage
- Next steps
