The pytest framework allows for cleaner tests to be written but also for efficient running of tests with multiple plugins.
The pytest-cov plugin allows you to run coverage checks with pytest.
The pytest-flake8 plugin allows you to run flake8 checks with pytest.
The pytest-randomly plugin does two things (for Nashpy):
- It randomly shuffles the order of tests: this ensures that tests passing is not dependent on the order in which they run.
- It seeds stochastic tests to ensure that any exceptions are reproducible. In practice this has little effect here as ideally stochastic tests are seeded or written with
hypothesis <hypothesis-discussion>
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The pytest-sugar plugin changes the look of pytest.
The Talk Python to Me podcast episode 267 featured a discussion of a number of pytest plugins: https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/267/15-amazing-pytest-plugins