Summary

Recall

In this chapter, we’ve looked at a number of topics related to testing applications written in Python. These topics include the following:

• We described the importance of unit testing and test-driven development as a way to be sure our software does what is expected.

• We started by using the unittest module because it’s part of the standard library and readily available. It seems a little wordy, but otherwise works well for confirming that our software works.

• The pytest tool requires a separate installation, but it seems to produce tests that are slightly simpler ...