[PATCH 2/2] Add a message to run 'pytest' to run rest of test suite.

[Sebastian Huber]

On 16/03/2020 20:26, Amar Takhar wrote:

> I should have also added some of my own reasons why pytest is better for writing
> tests in Python:
>
>    - Fantastic exception handling makes it far easier to debug test and code.
>      PDB works seamlessly.
>    - Far less overhead in creating initial tests.
>    - Trivial fixture support
>    - Paramaterised tests -- this is incredibly essential / useful.
>
> Another feature that's not often mentioned is pytest discovers tests all on its
> own.  You can put a test anywhere labled test_*.py and it will work.  You can
> run pytest anywhere in the source as well.
>
> The above are starkly different from unittest where these features don't exist
> or are difficult / have a large overhead to implement.
What is your recommendation with respect to the use of unittest.mock?