Getting started with pytest Transcripts
Chapter: Welcome to the course
Lecture: pytest vs. unittest
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Let's take a look at a simple example of a test and compare pytest versus unittest. In pytest, you just really have a test function starts with test
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underscore and use normal asserts. In unit tests you need to derive from unit test test case. So that means that every test has to be a method in a
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test class. And you can't really use assert. You can but it doesn't give you enough information.
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So there's helper functions like assert equal. With pytest. You can use classes if you want,
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you just don't have to and if you do use test classes you don't derive from
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anything. You could just have a class and you can still use the normal assert.
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These assert helper functions. There's a whole bunch of them in unit test. I'm only listing a few in pytest as I've shown on the left.
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It's just assert. So you any boolean expression can be used in an assert statement