Oct 12: Unit Testing with pytest

Meet in King 248

Learning Objectives

After today's class, you should be able to:

• Describe how to run pytest in VS Code (from multiple locations).
• Explain the role of assert statements in unit tests.
• Write tests for ordinary inputs and for edge cases.

Lesson Outline

Testing [40 min]

• Testing with pytest
  • Running pytest in the terminal
  • Running pytest in VS Code

Debugging [10 min]

• Debug code with Visual Studio Code
• Debugging in Visual Studio Code

Your To-Do List

• Read the Week 8 guide and begin studying