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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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Chapter 14Third-Party Plugins

As powerful as pytest is right out of the box, it gets even better when we add plugins to the mix. The pytest code base is designed to allow customization and extensions, and there are hooks available to allow modifications and improvements through plugins.

It might surprise you to know that you’ve already written some plugins if you’ve worked through the previous chapters in this book. Any time you put fixtures and/or hook functions into a project’s conftest.py file, you create a local plugin. It’s just a little bit of extra work to convert these conftest.py files into installable plugins that you can share between projects, with other people, or with the world.

We’ll start this chapter by looking at where to find ...

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