Python: Journey from Novice to Expert

Testing packages

In Chapter 10, Testing and Logging – Preparing for Bugs, the testing chapter, we saw a few of the many testing systems for Python. As you might suspect, at least some of these have setup.py integration.

Unittest

Before we start, we should create a test script for our package. For actual tests, look at Chapter 10, Testing and Logging – Preparing for Bugs, the testing chapter. In this case, we will just use a no-op test, test.py:

import unittest


class Test(unittest.TestCase):

    def test(self):
        pass

The standard python setup.py test command will run the regular unittest command:

# python setup.py -v test
running test
running "unittest --verbose"
running egg_info
writing Our_little_project.egg-info/PKG-INFO
writing dependency_links to Our_little_project.egg-info/dependency_links.txt ...