Expert Python Programming - Third Edition

nose

nose is mainly a test runner with powerful discovery features. It has extensive options that allow you to run all kinds of test campaigns in a Python application.

It is not a part of standard library, but is available on PyPI and can be easily installed with pip, as follows:

pip install nose

In the following sections, we will take a look at a default nose test runner, system of fixtures, and integration with setup tools and the plugin system in nose.