Python Testifyhttps://github.com/Yelp/Testify |
unittesthttps://docs.Python.org/3/library/unittest.html |
|
---|---|---|
Programming language | Python | Python |
Category |
Unit Testing
|
Unit Testing
|
General info |
A Python unit testing framework modelled after unittest Testify is modelled after unittest but has more features while still supporting unittest classes. It has more pythonic naming conventions, an better test runner output visually, a decorator-based approach to fixture methods among many other features |
unittest is a unit testing framework for Python The unittest test framework is Python’s xUnit style framework. It is a standard module that is bundled with Python and supports the automation and aggregation of tests and common setup and shutdown code for them. |
xUnit
Set of frameworks originating from SUnit (Smalltalk's testing framework). They share similar structure and functionality. |
No
|
Yes unittest is a xUnit style frameworkfor Python, it was previously called PyUnit. |
Client-side
Allows testing code execution on the client, such as a web browser |
Yes Front-end functionality and behaviour can be tested by Testify. |
Yes Front-end functionality and behaviour can be tested by unittest. |
Server-side
Allows testing the bahovior of a server-side code |
Yes Testify can test various server and database behaviours and functionality |
Yes Since the webserver funtionalities have their own features and each feature has its own functions, we can write tests with unittest to test each function |
Fixtures
Allows defining a fixed, specific states of data (fixtures) that are test-local. This ensures specific environment for a single test |
Yes Fixture methods are supported and it follows a decorator based approach, that is they are written similar to decorators |
Yes By use of the 'setUp()' function which is called to prepare the test fixture |
Group fixtures
Allows defining a fixed, specific states of data for a group of tests (group-fixtures). This ensures specific environment for a given group of tests. |
Yes Group fixtures are supported |
Yes unittest allows you to group your initialization code into a setUp function and clean up code in a tearDown function |
Generators
Supports data generators for tests. Data generators generate input data for test. The test is then run for each input data produced in this way. |
Yes One can create generator methods to yield runnable test methods which will pick out the test methods from your TestCases, and then exclude any in any of your exclude_suites method.If there are any require_suites, it will then further limit itself to test methods in those suites. |
Yes unittest contains generator methods in the module 'unittest.TestCase' |
Licence
Licence type governing the use and redistribution of the software |
Apache License 2.0
|
MIT License
|
Mocks
Mocks are objects that simulate the behavior of real objects. Using mocks allows testing some part of the code in isolation (with other parts mocked when needed) |
Yes It includes the turtle mock object library |
Yes Mocks are available from the library unittest.mock which allows you to replace parts of your system under test with mock objects |
Grouping
Allows organizing tests in groups |
Yes Testify includes support for detecting and running test suites, grouped by modules, classes, or individual test methods. |
Yes One can build suites either manually or use test discovery to build the suite automatically by scanning a directory |
Other
Other useful information about the testing framework |
|
|