Listen "19: Python unittest - Robert Collins"
Episode Synopsis
Interview with Robert Collins, current core maintainer of Python's unittest module.Some of the topics coveredHow did Robert become the maintainer of unittest?unittest2 as a rolling backport of unittesttest and class parametrization with subtest and testscenariosWhich extension to unittest most closely resembles Pytest fixtures?Comparing Pytest and unittestWill unittest ever get assert rewriting?Future changes to unittestI've been re-studying unittest recently and I mostly wanted to ask Robert a bunch of clarifying questions.This is an intermediate to advanced discussion of unittest. Many great features of unittest go by quickly in this talk. Please let me know if there's something you'd like me to cover in more depth as a blog post or a future episode.Linksunittestunittest2pipmocktesttoolsfixturestestscenariossubunitpipserverdevpitestresourcesTIP (testing in python) mailing list
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