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Do you know any good example of Python unit testing code for testing an API? Thanks! Update:
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DocTest from the standard library will help you to some extent. It lets you put example invocations of your library (including code expected to break in some particular way) into your docstrings, and (as long as they are formatted like a session from the interactive interpreter), doctest will find them and use them as test cases - if the given code gets the right result, or throws the right exception, the test case passes. |
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If you're asking about functional testing (with database, fixtures etc.), then I don't see any specific problems with neither framework-specific tools nor more abstract python Simple example is here: http://www.redhotchilipython.com/en_posts/testing_python/functional.html (maybe I should take a time and finish that long post one day). The main problems are rather with good quality of your factories to generate test-data, with parts of response you're going to test (you should be careful and concentrate and to run your predicates against test-subject, but not other pieces of data, otherwise you'll be trapped into "change one letter -> go fix 100 tests" hell). If you're asking about unit-testing views, then it's no different then testing any other functions. I highly recommend my mockstar library for mocking away all side-effects declaratively, by the way. |
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