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For the combination of JUnit, Mockito, Hamcrest, Rest Assured and Spring Test (each of which playing its own role in testing) I am able to more-reliably find an

For the combination of JUnit, Mockito, Hamcrest, Rest Assured and Spring Test (each of which playing its own role in testing) I am able to more-reliably find answers than for the combinations of Python libraries that I seem to run into. They may be less in absolute numbers, but if (my perception) they appear in too many permutations, it's often hard to find the right answers.

ptx 7y ago
An equivalent to Spring Test + JUnit in Python might be Django's testing framework, which extends the standard library's unittest module. REST Assured might not need an equivalent - the documentation says it "brings the simplicity of using [dynamic languages such as Ruby and Groovy] into the Java domain". As for Hamcrest, I don't know what you would use with unittest (other than the build-in assertions), but I think pytest does some clever introspection to give similar results when it comes to error reporting. Since I've only tried the boring default options, I'd be interested to learn about the more esoteric ones people are using. Could you give examples of some of the permutations of Python test libraries you have run into in practice?
zo1 7y ago
JUnit -> unittest (std lib) Mockito -> mock (std lib) Rest Assured -> Convenience library, not needed for testing APIs in python. Spring Test -> Only needed for the Spring framework. Hamcrest -> No idea wtf this is or why it's needed for unit-testing, but there is a python port: PyHamcrest The two actual libraries needed for unit-testing are there, fully-featured, and part of the standard library. The other examples you cite are completely irrelevant to normal unit-testing and seem more borne out of the Java ecosystem or your particular methodology for unit-testing web-apis, rather than actually performing a role that can be defined as existing "cross-language". So no, from my observation, there does not appear to be any "mess" in the python unit-testing ecosystem. However, in general, there are a lot of python libraries out there and they all solve similar problems in different ways. If you go out searching for the "how to do this unit-testing convenience feature" in python you're of course going to find a lot of answers. The same way I found inconclusive results for java when researching this response.

ptx 7y ago

An equivalent to Spring Test + JUnit in Python might be Django's testing framework, which extends the standard library's unittest module. REST Assured might not need an equivalent - the documentation says it "brings the simplicity of using [dynamic languages such as Ruby and Groovy] into the Java domain". As for Hamcrest, I don't know what you would use with unittest (other than the build-in assertions), but I think pytest does some clever introspection to give similar results when it comes to error reporting. Since I've only tried the boring default options, I'd be interested to learn about the more esoteric ones people are using. Could you give examples of some of the permutations of Python test libraries you have run into in practice?

zo1 7y ago

JUnit -> unittest (std lib) Mockito -> mock (std lib) Rest Assured -> Convenience library, not needed for testing APIs in python. Spring Test -> Only needed for the Spring framework. Hamcrest -> No idea wtf this is or why it's needed for unit-testing, but there is a python port: PyHamcrest The two actual libraries needed for unit-testing are there, fully-featured, and part of the standard library. The other examples you cite are completely irrelevant to normal unit-testing and seem more borne out of the Java ecosystem or your particular methodology for unit-testing web-apis, rather than actually performing a role that can be defined as existing "cross-language". So no, from my observation, there does not appear to be any "mess" in the python unit-testing ecosystem. However, in general, there are a lot of python libraries out there and they all solve similar problems in different ways. If you go out searching for the "how to do this unit-testing convenience feature" in python you're of course going to find a lot of answers. The same way I found inconclusive results for java when researching this response.