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Professional Testing with pytest and tox
Target Audience
People with a Python programming background, interested in best practices of testing Python libraries and applications.
Motivation
Testing is essential for code quality. Tests need to be automated and regularly run to benefit from them. Frameworks such as pytest are based on many years of exercise and help you apply best practices to your tests.
Testing and releasing your code for many different Python versions and implementations can be hard. The new library tox is an effect tool to integrate testing and deployment. It works with and connects to established tools including those for Continuous Integration.
Applying the Python philosophy that simple things should be simple and complex task should be possible, pytest and tox make it easy to get started but at the same time provide powerful features for professional software development.
Course Content
In 30 steps we introduce terms and tools for testing in Python. Each step consists of an input, discussion and self-practice phase. The main topics of the course are:
- Testing terms: functional, unit, integration, acceptance
- Test driven development, "after it work" and legacy-code testing
- pytest basic usage: command line options, test discovery, capturing stdout, assert, expecting exceptions, interactive debugger, simple fixtures
- Integrating nose, twisted, django and unittest/2 style tests
- Load balancing across multiple CPUs or machines
- Configuring and using test coverage analysis
- Special test outcomes: skip, xfail and when to use them
- Using fixture functions for managing test state
- Using fixture functions for controlling external processes
- When and how to use mocking to avoid expensive setups
- Using tox to run tests against installed libraries and applications
- Using tox to build and test sphinx documentation
- Using tox to integrate with Jenkins CI or travis-ci.org
Each bullet point will be covered with two to three short units with exercises.
Course Style
This is a hands-on course with lots of student activities. The presentation parts are usually short and include real-life examples. Students will create their own tests from the very beginning. Exercises are an important part of the training. Students are encouraged to bring their own problems to be discussed during the course.
Course Duration
3 days
Exercises
The participants can follow all steps directly on their computers. There are exercises at the end of each unit providing ample opportunity to apply the freshly learned knowledge.
Course Material
Every participant receives comprehensive printed materials that cover the whole course content as wells a CD with all source codes and used software.
The Trainer
Holger Krekel is the author of pytest and tox. He is a very experienced Python programmer and one of the founders of the famous pypy project. He is a creator or a contributor of many, often widely used, Open Source libraries. Over the last few years, he's has been working intensively in the fields of testing and test-driven development. Holger is currently living in Freiburg, Germany.
Recommended Module Combinations
You should have intermediate Python experience or attend the course Python for Programmers before. You might be also interested in the course Advanced Python.
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