time-machine
Travel through time in your tests. (by adamchainz)
freezegun
Let your Python tests travel through time (by spulec)
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2 | 9 | |
606 | 3,972 | |
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8.6 | 7.5 | |
4 days ago | 11 days ago | |
Python | Python | |
MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
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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.
time-machine
Posts with mentions or reviews of time-machine.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-19.
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About time: how to unit test code that depends on time
Freezegun is pretty much unmaintained. You want time-machine https://github.com/adamchainz/time-machine
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Running C unit tests with pytest
There are lots of good mocking fixtures available for pytest. I've used this one for clock stuff in the past: https://github.com/adamchainz/time-machine#pytest-plugin
freezegun
Posts with mentions or reviews of freezegun.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-19.
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About time: how to unit test code that depends on time
* in C++.
On Python, just use freezegun to inject controllable timestamps in response to calls to time methods.
https://github.com/spulec/freezegun
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How to simulate a delay in a test?
I had much fun with https://github.com/spulec/freezegun
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Unnecessary unit-test mocking?
If you're ever in Python-land, freezegun is a super neat library that snags all the time/date related functions and lets you control time from code.
- Microsoft Exchange stops passing mail due to bug on 1/1/22
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Python: Please stop screwing over Linux distros
For example, freezegun which is a common testing utility.
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Mocking Python datetime In Tests With FreezeGun
FreezeGun is a library that helps with mocking out the datetime.datetime.now function. It is a very useful tool for testing code that uses the datetime library.
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Introduction to Flaky Tests by Example
Another way of doing so would be to inject the value directly to the method. Python has a very good library to sandbox the tests when using the built-in datetime objects: freezegun. Once again, and unfortunately for us, the project was using arrow so this was not a possibility.
- FreezeGun: Let your Python tests travel through time
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As a beginner to testing, what is the best and fastest way to create testing cases?
If you do time sensitive tests, use freeze gun to make them reproducible https://github.com/spulec/freezegun
What are some alternatives?
When comparing time-machine and freezegun you can also consider the following projects:
doublex
python-libfaketime - A fast time mocking alternative to freezegun that wraps libfaketime.
mock - The Python mock library
Moto - A library that allows you to easily mock out tests based on AWS infrastructure.
betamax - A VCR imitation designed only for python-requests.
VCR.py - Automatically mock your HTTP interactions to simplify and speed up testing
httpretty - Intercept HTTP requests at the Python socket level. Fakes the whole socket module
responses - A utility for mocking out the Python Requests library.