116: 15 amazing pytest plugins - Michael Kennedy
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pytest plugins are an amazing way to supercharge your test suites, leveraging great solutions from people solving test problems all over the world. In this episode Michael and I discuss 15 favorite plugins that you should know about.

We also discuss fixtures and plugins and other testing tools that work great with pytest

• tox

• GitHub Actions

• Coverage.py

• Selenium + splinter with pytest-splinter

• Hypothesis

And then our list of pytest plugins:

• pytest-sugar

• pytest-cov

• pytest-stress

• pytest-repeat

• pytest-instafail

• pytest-metadata

• pytest-randomly

• pytest-xdist

• pytest-flake8

• pytest-timeout

• pytest-spec

• pytest-picked

• pytest-freezegun

• pytest-check

• fluentcheck

That last one isn't a plugin, but we also talked about pytest-splinter at the beginning. So I think it still counts as 15.

Special Guest: Michael Kennedy.

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Links:

• pytest-sugar) — changes the default look and feel of pyptest (e.g. progressbar, show tests that fail instantly)
• pytest-cov) — run coverage.py from pytest
• pytest-stress) — allows you to loop tests for a user defined amount of time.
• pytest-repeat) — for repeating test execution
• pytest-instafail) — shows failures and errors instantly instead of waiting until the end of test session.
• pytest-metadata) — for accessing test session metadata
• pytest-randomly) — randomly order tests and control random.seed
• pytest-xdist) — distributed testing
• pytest-flake8) — pytest plugin to run flake8
• pytest-timeout) — terminate tests after a certain timeout
• pytest-spec) — display test execution output like a specification
• pytest-picked) — run the tests related to the changed files (according to Git)
• pytest-freezegun) — easily freeze time
• pytest-check) — allows multiple failures per test
• fluentcheck) — fluent assertions
• episode 104) — Top 28 pytest plugins with Anthony Sottile
• Python Testing with pytest) — The easiest way to get up to speed with pytest fast. There's also a chapter dedicated to plugins that also teaches you how to write and test your own plugins.
• tox)
• GitHub Actions)
• Coverage.py)
• pytest-splinter) — provides a set of fixtures to use splinter for browser testing
• splinter) — makes it easy to write automated tests of web applications
• hypothesis) — property-based testing
• Talk Python Episode #267) — This episode is a cross post with Talk Python