Chapter 1. Using Unittest To Develop Basic Tests

In this chapter, we will cover:

• Asserting the basics

• Setting up and tearing down a test harness

• Running test cases from the command line

• Running a subset of test case methods

• Chaining together a suite of tests

• Defining test suites inside the test case

• Retooling old test code to run inside unittest

• Breaking down obscure tests into simple ones

• Testing the edges

• Testing corner cases by iteration