Testing

Test runners

Name	Short description	🚦
pytest	A framework for writing and running tests. We recommend pytest over unittest because pytest tends to encourage a cleaner style, there are also extensive plugins and it’s in widespread use.	🟢
tox	A framework that allows running tests and packaging in different environments.	🟢
unittest	Python’s built in framework for writing and running tests. Encourages use of classes as test fixtures.	🟠

pytest plugins

Name	Short description	🚦
pytest-cov	A framework to generate coverage reports that plays nicely with pytest.	🟢
pytest-mock	A framework to mock/patch objects that plays nicely with pytest.	🟢
pyfakefs	A plugin to create a full fake file system, for situations where you need something more complicated than the built in tmp_path fixture.	🟢

Property based testing

Name	Short description	🚦
Hypothesis	Allows one to easily test multiple inputs for a given function with ease	🟢