pytest Quick Start Guide

Honorable mentions

There are just too many good plugins to fit into this chapter. The previous sample is really just a small taste, where I tried to strike a balance between useful, interesting, and showing the flexibility of the plugin architecture.

Here are a few other plugins that are worth mentioning:

• pytest-bdd: a behavior-driven development for pytest
• pytest-benchmark: a fixture to benchmark code. It outputs benchmark results with color output
• pytest-csv: outputs test status as CSV files
• pytest-docker-compose: this manages Docker containers, using Docker compose during test runs
• pytest-excel: outputs test status reports in Excel
• pytest-git: provides a git fixture for tests that need to deal with git repositories
• pytest-json: outputs ...