Testing for people who hate testing

Testing for people who hate writing tests

Tips and tricks for organizing and writing simple tests with pytest.

Writing tests is painful

● what to test● how to do it● takes time● QQ...

User facing● Mobile API (Bono)● Livelovely.com (Spot)● Pro.livelovely.com (Pearl)● Messaging API (Ditto)● Photo API (Jiris)

Case study

Organizing

● mimic application structure○ easy to remember○ helps scope tests○ easy test hooks

● pytest discovery○ http://pytest.org/latest/goodpractises.

html#conventions-for-python-test-discovery

Theres a fixture for that...

● test fixture is a fixed state of the software under test used as a baseline for running tests; also known as the test context.

● reusable bits of code that are used to write tests.

● fixtures replace traditional setup/teardown● fixtures can be built on top of each other

Request fixture

User fixture

Test using fixture

Interaction Fixture

Test using fixture

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