116: 15 amazing pytest plugins - Michael Kennedy

pytest plugins are an amazing way to supercharge your test suites, leveraging great solutions from people solving test problems all over the world. In this episode Michael and I discuss 15 favorite plugins that you should know about. We also discuss fixtures and plugins and other testing tools that work great with pytest tox GitHub Actions Coverage.py Selenium + splinter with pytest-splinter Hypothesis And then our list of pytest plugins: pytest-sugar pytest-cov pytest-stress pytest-repeat pytest-instafail pytest-metadata pytest-randomly pytest-xdist pytest-flake8 pytest-timeout pytest-spec pytest-picked pytest-freezegun pytest-check fluentcheck That last one isn't a plugin, but we also talked about pytest-splinter at the beginning. So I think it still counts as 15. Special Guest: Michael Kennedy. Links: pytest-sugar — changes the default look and feel of pyptest (e.g. progressbar, show tests that fail instantly) pytest-cov — run coverage.py from pytest pytest-stress — allows you to loop tests for a user defined amount of time. pytest-repeat — for repeating test execution pytest-instafail — shows failures and errors instantly instead of waiting until the end of test session. pytest-metadata — for accessing test session metadata pytest-randomly — randomly order tests and control random.seed pytest-xdist — distributed testing pytest-flake8 — pytest plugin to run flake8 pytest-timeout — terminate tests after a certain timeout pytest-spec — display test execution output like a specification pytest-picked — run the tests related to the changed files (according to Git) pytest-freezegun — easily freeze time pytest-check — allows multiple failures per test fluentcheck — fluent assertions episode 104 — Top 28 pytest plugins with Anthony Sottile Python Testing with pytest — The easiest way to get up to speed with pytest fast. There's also a chapter dedicated to plugins that also teaches you how to write and test your own plugins. tox GitHub Actions Coverage.py pytest-splinter — provides a set of fixtures to use splinter for browser testing splinter — makes it easy to write automated tests of web applications hypothesis — property-based testing Talk Python Episode #267 — This episode is a cross post with Talk Python