In this hands-on course, you’ll see how to create Python unit tests, execute them, and find the bugs before your users do. You’ll learn about the tools available to write and execute tests, check your application’s performance, and even look for security issues.
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7 Lessons 29m
About Chyld Medford
Chyld is an avid Pythonista and writes for Real Python. He teaches data science and full stack software engineering to companies around the world. He loves functional programming, linear algebra, all things linux, machine learning ... and Python!
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Glenn Lehman on Sept. 29, 2021
Nice introduction to this subject.
Wesley on Aug. 7, 2020
This guy is great. A lot of times when watching videos, I have a question in my head that never gets answered. This guy guessed my questions, spoke them out loud and then answered them not once but twice.
Kudos for not leaving out important details.
Would like to see a pytest assertion that the proper error is thrown/raised.
saschakiefer on April 14, 2020
Great introduction, thanks a lot. For a Python Newbie, that is very helpful.
Gareth on Jan. 8, 2020
That was a good tutorial, thank you.
Jacob Andersen on Nov. 14, 2019
The --cov flag didnt work for me until i manually installed cov with pip install pytest-cov. Otherwise, excellent tutorial with nice pace.
Najmeh on Aug. 21, 2019
Thank you very much for giving a clear explanation. Great job!
ashokbayana369 on Aug. 14, 2019
Really Great tutorial, I learned the concepts of applying TDD practically :)
senatoduro8 on July 27, 2019
This is the perfect tutorial. Now I feel comfortable about test driven development. Can you point me. @Chyld, can you point me to a great resource for learning the advance stuffs when it comes to test driven development with pytest?
Corey Hermanson on May 18, 2019
Thank you Chyld! This was a fantastic bite-sized intro to TDD. Excited to implement.
Abdullah on May 10, 2019
Great tutorials. It gives you the big picture of the unit testing concept by pytest in a short time. These tutorials will be the good choice if you don’t have enough time to study the pytest framework because it drives you to the important concepts that you need to start testing your code.
Thank you.
Majid Bilal on March 15, 2019
This was useful and perhaps this could be my first step into test driven development.
ypochienTW on March 13, 2019
Simply and clear. Nice course for pytest newbie.
artemudovyk on April 11, 2022
Yeah, very nice course. Loved instructor’s diction and voice. Thanks! :)