coveragepy
The code coverage tool for Python (by nedbat)
pytest
The pytest framework makes it easy to write small tests, yet scales to support complex functional testing (by pytest-dev)
coveragepy | pytest | |
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7 | 30 | |
2,838 | 11,402 | |
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9.6 | 9.8 | |
about 23 hours ago | about 21 hours ago | |
Python | Python | |
Apache License 2.0 | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
coveragepy
Posts with mentions or reviews of coveragepy.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-14.
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An Introduction to Testing with Django for Python
Coverage.py is the go-to tool for measuring code coverage of Python programs. Once installed, you can use it with either unittest or pytest.
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The Uncreative Software Engineer's Compendium to Testing
Code Coverage Analysis assess the code portions tested by the current test suites without altering the code.
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Slipcover: Near Zero-Overhead Python Code Coverage
The PLASMA lab @ UMass Amherst (home of the Scalene profiler) has released a new version of Slipcover, a super fast code coverage tool for Python. It is by far the fastest code coverage tool: in our tests, its average slowdown is just 5% (compare to the widely used coverage.py, average slowdown 218%!). The latest release performs both line and branch coverage with virtually no overhead. Use it to dramatically speed up your tests and continuous integration!
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Unit Tests - what’s the point?
Tests ensure the tested behavior is maintained. It's up to the developers to write tests with sufficient coverage. Determining which lines of code on your project are covered by tests is easily quantifiable using tooling. E.g. https://coverage.readthedocs.io/
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How to make Django package smaller for Serverless deployment
Taking the idea further, if you build robust tests for your API, you could use a dynamic code analyzer like coverage or figleaf to identify and delete unused functions.
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Comparison of Python TOML parser libraries
coverage
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New Ways to Be Told That Your Python Code Is Bad
FWIW, ternary expressions aren't properly detected by coverage: https://github.com/nedbat/coveragepy/issues/509
pytest
Posts with mentions or reviews of pytest.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-31.
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Integrating Lab Equipment into pytest-Based Tests
In this blog post I want to demonstrate how my lab equipment such as a lab power supply or a digital multimeter (DMM) have been integrated into some pytest-based tests. Would love to get your feedback and thoughts! 🚀
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The Uncreative Software Engineer's Compendium to Testing
Pytest: is a third-party testing framework that supports fixtures, parameterized testing, and easy test discovery while having room to add plugins to extend its functionality.
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pytest VS vedro - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 16 Jul 2023
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TDD vs BDD - A Detailed Guide
Next, you need to install a testing framework that will be used for performing unit testing in your project. Several testing frameworks are available depending on the programming language used to create an application. For example, JUnit is commonly used for Java apps, pytest for Python apps, NUnit for .NET apps, Jest for JavaScript apps, and so on. We’ll use the Jest framework for this tutorial since we are using JavaScript.
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Is there a way to automate testing in python? In my case :
Yea, read through the pytest docs.
- Testing an automation framework
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Pytest Tips and Tricks
I absolutely agree about fixtures-as-arguments thing. Ward does this a lot better, using default values for the fixture factory. There's a long issue on ideas to implement something like that as a pytest plugin (https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/3834), but it seems the resulting plugin relies on something of a hack.
- 2023 Development Tool Map
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Is my merge sort right?
I recommend writing a few tests. py.test makes that quite simple:
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How to raise the quality of scientific Jupyter notebooks
Since ITK's inception in 1999, there has been a focus on engineering practices that result in high-quality software. High-quality scientific software is driven by regression testing. The ITK project supported the development of CTest and CDash unit testing and software quality dashboard tools for use with the CMake build system. In the Python programming language, the pytest test driver helps developers write small, readable scripts that ensure their software will continue to work as expected. However, pytest can only test Python scripts by default, and errors in untested computational notebooks are more common than well-tested Python code.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing coveragepy and pytest you can also consider the following projects:
global-chem - A Knowledge Graph of Common Chemical Names to their Molecular Definition
nose2 - The successor to nose, based on unittest2
slipcover - Near Zero-Overhead Python Code Coverage
Robot Framework - Generic automation framework for acceptance testing and RPA
Zappa - Serverless Python
Behave - BDD, Python style.
pytomlpp - A python wrapper for tomlplusplus
Slash - The Slash testing infrastructure
flit - Simplified packaging of Python modules
hypothesis - Hypothesis is a powerful, flexible, and easy to use library for property-based testing.
toml - Python lib for TOML
nose - nose is nicer testing for python