April 2019
Intermediate to advanced
646 pages
16h 48m
English
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unittest alternatives
Some third-party tools try to solve the problems we mentioned previously by providing extra features in the shape of unittest extensions.
The Python Wiki provides a very long list of various testing utilities and frameworks (see https://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonTestingToolsTaxonomy), but there are just the following two projects that are especially popular:
- nose, documented at http://nose.readthedocs.org
- py.test, documented at http://pytest.org