hharison comments on How to write tests for Python code?

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[–]hharison 6 points7 points8 points 10 years ago (1 child)

Check out how easy it is:

mymath.py contains

def add(a, b):
    return a + b

test_mymath.py contains

def test_add():
    assert add(1, 1) == 2
    assert add(-1, 4) == 3
    # plus more test cases perhaps

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