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Chapter: pytest Plugins
Lecture: Review
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To review. We covered pytest plugins and protests. Plugins can be found at pytest.org. There is a plugin list that you can look plugins up with and on
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pypi.org. One of the tricks we used was to use the classifier FRAMEWORK: :PYTEST. Although not all plugins used this,
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so be careful of that. We also found a bunch at github.com/pytest-dev. Now the plugins that we showed in the course where
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pytest repeat to. You used to run test multiple times pytest xdist. to run tests in parallel and pytest randomly to randomize test,
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order to take you further if you would like to build your own plugin pytest is massively extensible. So there are a lot of plugins and if you
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have a specific need, there may already be a plugin to fill your needs You can also build your own relatively easily.
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There's an entire chapter within the python testing of pyest, second edition book and it walks you through building and testing a plugin.
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Specifically, it walks through the pytest, skip slow plugin that we briefly looked at but didn't shown example of them.