Automated Testing in Python with pytest, tox, and GitHub Actions

Take your Python project to the next level of professionalism. Automated testing in Python is an important way to take your Python project to the next level of dependability and professionalism. There are a lot of steps, but it's not too difficult to setup your tests to run automatically across multiple different operating systems and versions of Python whenever you push a commit or receive a pull request on your repository. We show you the entire process, step by step, to take a plain old project and turn it into an installable package with automated tests that run when you push to GitHub. We use pytest, mypy, and flake8 for testing, type checking, and code linting. Then we use tox to run all of these commands in isolated virtual environments. Finally, we use GitHub actions to run tox on a push or a pull request. Automated testing is the first and most important step in the more general world of continuous integration (CI), and continuous delivery or continuous deployment (CD). In this video we focus on automated testing, not on general CI/CD, as there is already PLENTY of material to cover. ― mCoding with James Murphy (https://mcoding.io) Source code: https://github.com/mCodingLLC/SlapThatLikeButton-TestingStarterProject Other code: https://github.com/mCodingLLC/VideosSampleCode pytest docs: https://docs.pytest.org/en/latest/ mypy docs: https://mypy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/index.html flake8 docs: https://flake8.pycqa.org/en/latest/ setuptools (setup py and setup cfg) docs: https://setuptools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html tox docs: https://tox.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ GitHub Actions docs: https://docs.github.com/en/actions tox-gh-actions repo: https://github.com/ymyzk/tox-gh-actions SUPPORT ME ⭐ --------------------------------------------------- Patreon: https://patreon.com/mCoding Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=VJY5SLZ8BJHEE Other donations: https://mcoding.io/donate Top patrons and donors: Laura M, Jameson, John Martin, Dragos C, Vahnekie, Pieter G, Sigmanificient, Casey G BE ACTIVE IN MY COMMUNITY 😄 --------------------------------------------------- Discord: https://discord.gg/Ye9yJtZQuN Github: https://github.com/mCodingLLC/ Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/mCoding/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/james.mcoding CHAPTERS --------------------------------------------------- 0:00 Intro 1:21 Overview of the video 2:56 Structuring your project 8:35 Pytest, mypy, flake8 10:58 Pytest features 18:34 Test multiple envs with tox 21:18 Test on commit with GH Actions 25:22 Readme badge 26:34 Thanks