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Interview with Robert Collins, current core maintainer of Python's unittest module.
Some of the topics covered
- How did Robert become the maintainer of unittest?
- unittest2 as a rolling backport of unittest
- test and class parametrization with subtest and testscenarios
- Which extension to unittest most closely resembles Pytest fixtures?
- Comparing Pytest and unittest
- Will unittest ever get assert rewriting?
- Future changes to unittest
I've been re-studying unittest recently and I mostly wanted to ask Robert a bunch of clarifying questions.
This is an intermediate to advanced discussion of unittest.
Please let me know if there's something you'd like me to cover in more depth as a blog post or a future episode.
Links
- unittest
- unittest2
- pip
- mock
- testtools
- fixtures
- testscenarios
- subunit
- pipserver
- devpi
- testresources
- TIP (testing in python) mailing list
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