Each test method usually invokes an assert*() method to check some expected outcome of the test. In our first example, we used assertEqual() to check whether the function name matches the expected function.
Similar to assertEqual(), the Python 3 unittest library provides more than 32 assert methods. It is further extended by Django by more than 19 framework-specific assert methods. You must choose the most appropriate method based on the end outcome that you are expecting so that you will get the most helpful error message.
Let's take a look at why by looking at an example testcase that has the following setUp() method:
def setUp(self):
self.l1 = [1, 2]
self.l2 = [1, 0]
Our test is to assert that l1 and l2 are equal (and ...
