Python Testing with pytest

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Wow. In this chapter, we created a plugin and left it inches away from being able to push it to PyPI. We looked at how to move from hook functions in a conftest.py file to an installable and distributable packaged pytest plugin.

In addition, we

• used a conftest.py and simple test code to manually develop hook functions for our plugin;

• moved conftest.py code into a new directory and pytest_skip_slow.py;

• moved test code into an examples directory;

• used flit init to create a pyproject.toml file, then modified the file for the special needs of pytest plugins;

• tried building with flit build and manually testing with built wheel;

• developed test code that utilized pytester and an example test file; and

• looked at different ways to distribute a ...