Python Testing with pytest

Exercises

Getting used to adding and editing configuration files now will help you understand just how simple and powerful they can be. These exercises focus on the primary configuration files.

The following exercises are based around the /path/to/code/exercises/ch8 directory, which looks like this:

exercises/ch8
├── pytest.ini
└── tests
    ├── a
    │   └── test_x.py
    └── b
        └── test_x.py

1. Go to /path/to/code/exercises/ch8 and run pytest.

   • What is the root directory?
   • What is the configuration file in use?
   • You should also see an error message. What does it say?

1. In the pytest.ini file, set testpaths to tests/a.

   • Does that fix the error?

1. Change the testpaths from tests/a to tests. Add __init__.py files to a and b.

   • Does that fix the error?

1. Set addopts ...