In object-oriented programming, there are plenty of accessors and mutators to test. This post demonstrates that this effort can be automated with reflection 🚀. The inspiration came from discussions I had with my students during our software-engineering class: how to increase code coverage without lots of manual effort? 🤔 Roughly speaking, the reflection mechanism allows …
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Marking Python Tests as Optional
Often code tests are to be run on special demand, rather than in a CI/CD manner: for instance, they may be slow or work only in a local mode with protected data. This note shows how to declare code tests optional in pytest, the leading testing framework for Python. The article is inspired by the …