116: 15 amazing pytest plugins - Michael Kennedy

pytest plugins are an amazing way to supercharge your test suites, leveraging great solutions from people solving test problems all over the world. In this episode Michael and I discuss 15 favorite plugins that you should know about.

We also discuss fixtures and plugins and other testing tools that work great with pytest

• tox
• GitHub Actions
• Coverage.py
• Selenium + splinter with pytest-splinter
• Hypothesis

And then our list of pytest plugins:

1. pytest-sugar
2. pytest-cov
3. pytest-stress
4. pytest-repeat
5. pytest-instafail
6. pytest-metadata
7. pytest-randomly
8. pytest-xdist
9. pytest-flake8
10. pytest-timeout
11. pytest-spec
12. pytest-picked
13. pytest-freezegun
14. pytest-check
15. fluentcheck

That last one isn't a plugin, but we also talked about pytest-splinter at the beginning. So I think it still counts as 15.

Special Guest: Michael Kennedy.

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Links:

• pytest-sugar — changes the default look and feel of pyptest (e.g. progressbar, show tests that fail instantly)
• pytest-cov — run coverage.py from pytest
• pytest-stress — allows you to loop tests for a user defined amount of time.
• pytest-repeat — for repeating test execution
• pytest-instafail — shows failures and errors instantly instead of waiting until the end of test session.
• pytest-metadata — for accessing test session metadata
• pytest-randomly — randomly order tests and control random.seed
• pytest-xdist — distributed testing
• pytest-flake8 — pytest plugin to run flake8
• pytest-timeout — terminate tests after a certain timeout
• pytest-spec — display test execution output like a specification
• pytest-picked — run the tests related to the changed files (according to Git)
• pytest-freezegun — easily freeze time
• pytest-check — allows multiple failures per test
• fluentcheck — fluent assertions
• episode 104 — Top 28 pytest plugins with Anthony Sottile
• Python Testing with pytest — The easiest way to get up to speed with pytest fast. There's also a chapter dedicated to plugins that also teaches you how to write and test your own plugins.
• tox
• GitHub Actions
• Coverage.py
• pytest-splinter — provides a set of fixtures to use splinter for browser testing
• splinter — makes it easy to write automated tests of web applications
• hypothesis — property-based testing
• Talk Python Episode #267 — This episode is a cross post with Talk Python