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Python Testing with pytest
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Python Testing with pytest

by Brian Okken
February 2022
Intermediate to advanced
274 pages
6h 28m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Learn pytest While Testing a Sample Application

In this book, you’re going to learn pytest by writing tests against an example project that I hope has many of the same traits of applications you’ll be testing after you read this book.

The sample application is called Cards. Cards is a minimal task-tracking application with a command-line user interface. It has enough in common with many other types of applications that I hope you can easily see how the testing concepts you learn while developing tests against Cards are applicable to your projects now and in the future.

Cards has a command-line interface (CLI). The CLI interacts with the rest of the code through an application programming interface (API). The API is the interface where you’ll ...

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