Advanced Python Programming

Better tests and benchmarks with pytest-benchmark

The Unix time command is a versatile tool that can be used to assess the running time of small programs on a variety of platforms. For larger Python applications and libraries, a more comprehensive solution that deals with both testing and benchmarking is pytest, in combination with its pytest-benchmark plugin.

In this section, we will write a simple benchmark for our application using the pytest testing framework. For the interested reader, the pytest documentation, which can be found at http://doc.pytest.org/en/latest/, is the best resource to learn more about the framework and its uses.

You can install pytest from the console using the pip install pytest command. The benchmarking plugin ...