Efficient Testing of Your Python Code With Pytest
Last Updated on June 28, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Janik and Patrick Tinz
Originally published on Towards AI.
TESTING AND PROGRAMMING
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Do you often look for errors in software components that could prevent with a better testing strategy? Sometimes you or a colleague change a small thing in existing software, and a few weeks later, you realize that a certain functionality no longer works. It is frustrating and tedious to find the old bugs. You can avoid all this by testing the functions and classes of your code. When you make changes to the code, your tests immediately show whether the old functionality still works correctly.
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