py.test plugin for regression tests
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This pytest-plugin allows capturing of output of test functions which can be compared to the captured output from former runs.
This is a common technique to start TDD if you have to refactor legacy code which ships without tests.
To install and activate this plugin execute:
$ pip install pytest-regtest
from your command line.
This py.test plugin provides a fixture named regtest for recording data by writing to this fixture, which behaves like an output stream:
from __future__ import print_function def test_squares_up_to_ten(regtest): result = [i*i for i in range(10)] # one way to record output: print(result, file=regtest) # alternative method to record output: regtest.write("done")
If you run this test script with py.test the first time there is no recorded output for this test function so far and thus the test will fail with a message including a diff:
$ py.test ... def test_squares_up_to_ten(regtest): E > Regression test failed > > --- is > +++ tobe > @@ -1,2 +1 @@ > -[0, 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49, 64, 81] > -done > +
For accepting this output, we run py.test with the –reset-regtest flag:
$ py.test --regtest-reset
The recorded output is written to files in the subfolder _regtest_outputs next to your test script(s).
Now the next execution of py.test will succeed:
$ py.test
Other features
Another way to record output is the regtest_redirect fixture:
def test_squares_up_to_ten(regtest_redirect): result = [i*i for i in range(10)] with regtest_redirect(): print result
You can reset recorded output of files and functions individually as:
$ py.test --regtest-reset tests/test_00.py $ py.test --regtest-reset tests/test_00.py::test_squares_up_to_ten
To supress the diff and only see the stats use:
$ py.test --regtest-nodiff
If you want to see the during the test run recorded output use:
$ py.test --regtest-tee -s
If you develop on mixed platforms it might be usefull to ignore white spaces at the end of the lines when comparing output. This can be achieved by specifying:
$ py.test --regtest-ignore-line-endings
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