Testing

We have only focused on unit tests, which isolate a small part of the code (e.g., a single function) and test that it is working as expected. The relationship between unit tests and other types of tests (integration and functional) is described nicely here.

We have been using pytest. The other popular (and builtin) framework is unittest.

• mock - a library that helps you perform isolated unit tests
• pythontesting.net - good introductions to main testing frameworks
• nose - test discovery