My Python testing style guide – Stargirl (Thea) Flowers

• pytest-describe

  1 201 5.0 Python

  Describe-style plugin for the pytest framework

  

I've found pytest to encourage tests with really long method names, examples from the post:

* test_refresh_failure

* test_refresh_with_timeout

These get even longer like test_refresh_with_timeout_when_username_is_not_found for example.

pytest-describe allows for a much nicer testing syntax. There's a great comparison here: https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-describe#why-bother

TL;DR, this is nicer:

def describe_my_function():

    def with_default_arguments():

• VCR.py

  6 2,605 9.0 Python

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