Chapter 9: Unit Testing

[joshuamabina]

Unit Testing is the first level of software testing where the smallest testable parts of a software are tested. This is used to validate that each unit of the software performs as designed. The unittest test framework is python's xUnit style framework.

Source: https://diveintopython3.net/unit-testing.html

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Review Questions

1. What is Test-Driven Development (TDD)?
2. Why does Test-Driven Development matter?
3. What is Unit Testing?
4. Why does Unit Testing matter?
5. How does Test-Driven Development differ from Unit Testing?
6. Not every automated test is a unit test. Discuss.
7. What makes a unit test good or bad?
8. It is not enough to test for success. Discuss.
9. Apart from unittest, are there any other Pythonic unit testing libraries we can leverage?

[BaharaJr]

For further reading, check out these Pythonic unit testing resources:

1. unittest - Introduction
2. Unit Testing in Python - GeeksforGeeks
3. unittest — Python 3.8 Documentation
4. Testing 101: Introduction to Testing