pytest Quick Start Guide

Fixtures

• Fixtures are one of the main pytest features, used to share resources and provide easy-to-use test helpers.
• Use conftest.py files to share fixtures across test modules. Remember to prefer local imports to speed up test collection.
• Use autouse fixtures to ensure every test in a hierarchy uses a certain fixture to perform a required setup or teardown action.
• Fixtures can assume multiple scopes: function, class, module, and session. Use them wisely to reduce the total time of the test suite, keeping in mind that high-level fixture instances are shared between tests.
• Fixtures can be parametrized using the params parameter of the @pytest.fixture decorator. All tests that use a parametrized fixture will be parametrized automatically, ...