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• An Introduction to Testing with Django for Python

  Pytest is an excellent alternative to unittest. Even though it doesn't come built-in to Python itself, it is considered more pythonic than unittest. It doesn't require a TestClass, has less boilerplate code, and has a plain assert statement. Pytest has a rich plugin ecosystem, including a specific Django plugin, pytest-django. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

• How I Added Continuous Integration (CI) to a C++ Project

  For this lab exercise I had the opportunity to add unit tests to a classmate's project and experience their CI workflow. For this exercise I worked on go-go-web by kliu57. Go-Go Web is written in Python and uses the pytest testing framework. This was my first time writing tests for pytest, but I found the pytest docs helpful. However, more helpful was the information provided in the associated issue and the tests... - Source: dev.to / 6 months ago

• CI/CD Part 1: Unit/Integration Testing

  This week, in a setup for a CI/CD pipeline, I added unit and integration testing using Pytest to my Python CLI and utilized pytest-cov for generating a coverage report. As always, the merged commit for changes to the repo can be found here. - Source: dev.to / 6 months ago

• Testing in Python

  After looking through the various unit testing tools available for Python like pytest, unittest (built-in), and nose, I went with pytest for its simlpicity and ease of use. - Source: dev.to / 6 months ago

• Testing and Refactoring With pytest and pytest-cov

  Up until now we've been using python's unittest module. This was chosen as a first step since it comes with python out of the box. Now that we've gone over dev dependencies I think it's a good time to look at pytest as a unit test alternative. I highly recommend getting accustomed to pytest as it's used quite often in the python ecosystem to handle testing for projects. It's also a bit more user friendly in how it... - Source: dev.to / 7 months ago