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19: Python unittest with Robert Collins
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Length:
41 minutes
Released:
Jun 15, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Interview with Robert Collins, current core maintainer of Python's unittest module.
Some of the topics covered
How did Robert become the maintainer of unittest?
unittest2 as a rolling backport of unittest
test and class parametrization with subtest and testscenarios
Which extension to unittest most closely resembles Pytest fixtures?
Comparing Pytest and unittest
Will unittest ever get assert rewriting?
Future changes to unittest
I've been re-studying unittest recently and I mostly wanted to ask Robert a bunch of clarifying questions.
This is an intermediate to advanced discussion of unittest.
Many great features of unittest go by quickly in this talk.
Please let me know if there's something you'd like me to cover in more depth as a blog post or a future episode.
Links
unittest (https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/unittest.html)
unittest2 (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/unittest2)
pip (https://docs.python.org/3.5/installing/)
mock (https://docs.python.org/dev/library/unittest.mock.html)
testtools (https://testtools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/)
fixtures (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/fixtures)
testscenarios (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/testscenarios)
subunit (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-subunit)
pipserver (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pypiserver)
devpi (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/devpi-server)
testresources (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/testresources)
TIP (testing in python) mailing list (http://lists.idyll.org/listinfo/testing-in-python)
Some of the topics covered
How did Robert become the maintainer of unittest?
unittest2 as a rolling backport of unittest
test and class parametrization with subtest and testscenarios
Which extension to unittest most closely resembles Pytest fixtures?
Comparing Pytest and unittest
Will unittest ever get assert rewriting?
Future changes to unittest
I've been re-studying unittest recently and I mostly wanted to ask Robert a bunch of clarifying questions.
This is an intermediate to advanced discussion of unittest.
Many great features of unittest go by quickly in this talk.
Please let me know if there's something you'd like me to cover in more depth as a blog post or a future episode.
Links
unittest (https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/unittest.html)
unittest2 (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/unittest2)
pip (https://docs.python.org/3.5/installing/)
mock (https://docs.python.org/dev/library/unittest.mock.html)
testtools (https://testtools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/)
fixtures (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/fixtures)
testscenarios (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/testscenarios)
subunit (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-subunit)
pipserver (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pypiserver)
devpi (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/devpi-server)
testresources (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/testresources)
TIP (testing in python) mailing list (http://lists.idyll.org/listinfo/testing-in-python)
Released:
Jun 15, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode
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