Modern Python Projects Transcripts
Chapter: Testing code
Lecture: Unittest vs. pytest
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So, we wrote some codes, and now it's time to have some tests. Otherwise, when we want to add new features,
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we will have no way to tell, if the old code is still working fine or if we introduce some bugs. Python comes with a unit test module that you
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can use for writing tests, but most people use Pytest Instead, it's a third party library, which means that you have to install it with pip.
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But it's much easier to use, and at the same time, it's much more powerful in terms off additional features or command
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line parameters. Let's see an example of how pytest is different than unit tests