pytest-variables 1.0

pytest plugin for providing variables to tests/fixtures

pytest-variables is a plugin for py.test that provides variables to tests/fixtures as a dict via a JSON file specified on the command line.

Requirements

You will need the following prerequisites in order to use pytest-variables:

• Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4 or PyPy

• py.test 2.3 or newer

Installation

To install pytest-variables:

pip install pytest-variables

Then run your tests with:

py.test --variables=variables.json

Accessing variables

Create a JSON variables file such as:

{
  "foo": "bar",
  "bar": "foo"
}

Specify the variables funcarg to make the variables available to your tests. The contents of the JSON are made available as a dictionary:

def test_foo(self, variables):
    assert variables['foo'] == 'bar'
    assert variables.get('bar') == 'foo'
    assert variables.get('missing') is None

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