Chapter 21

Testing fundamentals with pytest

Unit versus integration tests, adding pytest with uv, reading assert's detailed report, pytest.raises, and writing a full test suite for a Pydantic model with fixtures and parametrize.

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Unit versus integration tests, adding pytest with uv, reading assert's detailed report, pytest.raises, and writing a full test suite for a Pydantic model with fixtures and parametrize.

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