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:

pytest-sugar

pytest-cov

pytest-stress

pytest-repeat

pytest-instafail

pytest-metadata

pytest-randomly

pytest-xdist

pytest-flake8

pytest-timeout

pytest-spec

pytest-picked

pytest-freezegun

pytest-check

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. Sponsored By:PyCharm Professional: Try PyCharm Pro for 4 months and learn how PyCharm will save you time. Promo Code: TESTANDCODE22Links:pytest-sugar — changes the default look and feel of pyptest (e.g. progressbar, show tests that fail instantly)pytest-cov — run coverage.py from pytestpytest-stress — allows you to loop tests for a user defined amount of time.pytest-repeat — for repeating test executionpytest-instafail — shows failures and errors instantly instead of waiting until the end of test session.pytest-metadata — for accessing test session metadatapytest-randomly — randomly order tests and control random.seedpytest-xdist — distributed testingpytest-flake8 — pytest plugin to run flake8pytest-timeout — terminate tests after a certain timeoutpytest-spec — display test execution output like a specificationpytest-picked — run the tests related to the changed files (according to Git)pytest-freezegun — easily freeze timepytest-check — allows multiple failures per testfluentcheck — fluent assertionsepisode 104 — Top 28 pytest plugins with Anthony SottilePython 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.toxGitHub ActionsCoverage.pypytest-splinter — provides a set of fixtures to use splinter for browser testingsplinter — makes it easy to write automated tests of web applicationshypothesis — property-based testingTalk Python Episode #267 — This episode is a cross post with Talk Python