June's blog post: Arrange Act Assert guide#10
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| I spoke about the Arrange Act Assert pattern and how it can help clean up unit | ||
| tests. I plan to write a short guide to AAA for Python developers and will | ||
| link to that from here when done - meanwhile, below are my slides and links | ||
| link to that from here when done - meanwhile, below is the video of the talk, my slides and links |
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This bad phrase will be removed when I link to the guide now.
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| Thanks again to `Carles <https://github.com/txels>`_ for introducing me to the | ||
| AAA pattern. Check out his `data driven tests library | ||
| <https://github.com/txels/ddt>`_. |
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OOI, why remove the ref to ddt? Found other solutions like pytest.mark.parametrize 😉?
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| This is the first post in a series exploring the Arrange Act Assert pattern and | ||
| how to apply it to Python unit tests. |
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maybe scrap the word 'unit'? It can be applied to functional tests too, etc.
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| I'll now go into detail on each of these parts using Pytest and a simple toy | ||
| test example. We'll write a simple happy-path test for Python's builtin | ||
| ``list.reverse`` function. |
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You're mixing "I'll" / "We'll" in this paragraph, which sounds a bit confused
| * We all love `PEP008 <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/>`_, so we want | ||
| tests to pass ``flake8`` linting. | ||
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| * `PEP020 <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/>`_ is also something we |
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I know this as the 'zen of python' instead of PEP 20, I had to click the link to remind myself that's what it is - maybe mention it as:
PEP020, The Zen of Python, is also something...
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| A short single line statement about the behaviour under test. |
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Personally I feel good test method names can make docstrings redundant in simple tests, and developers also find writing english harder than code 😉
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That's a helpful point. I've realised while considering this that the docstring is not really part of the pattern - it's my own addition. I'll rephrase to indicate that.
| will explore strategies for extracting common assertion code and testing it | ||
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| Links will appear above when I complete these follow up posts. |
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Me too! I hope that I can keep up with the one post per month schedule! 😅
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Thanks for the revew @adamchainz ... merging and publishing now. |
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| I'll now go into detail on each of these parts using Pytest and a toy |
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Do you mean toy here or tox? Just checking.
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I definitely mean "toy". This is just a toy example where I write a test for something in stdlib.
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Late, but 90% of the way there. Needs proof reading.
All suggestions welcome 😄