2021-02-17T11:36:00Z
How to Write Unit Tests in Python, Part 1: Fizz Buzz
Today I'm starting a new series of articles about a topic that does not get a lot of coverage: how to write Python unit tests. Unlike other testing tutorials, I'm going to focus on testing techniques more than on the testing tools themselves. The idea is that in each part of this series I will look at a particular piece of code and discuss the challenges it presents from a testing point of view and how to address them.
In this first part I'm going to introduce the testing set up that I use in my projects, which is based on pytest. Then I will show you how to write unit tests for an implementation of the popular fizz buzz game that is frequently the subject of coding interview exercises.