Programming best practices include having automated tests for your code. This is even more important for dynamic languages such as Python. Since there is no compilation step, you can't be sure there are no syntactic errors until the code is actually run by the interpreter. A good editor can help us spot these problems ahead of time, but can't help us ensure the code performs as intended like automated tests can.
Odoo supports two ways to describe tests: either using YAML data files or using Python code, based on the Unittest library. YAML tests are a legacy from older versions and are not recommended. We prefer using Python tests and will add a basic test case to our module.
The test code files should have a name starting ...
