pytest-inline: An Inline Testing Tool for Python
| Autor: | Liu, Yu, Thurston, Zachary, Han, Alan, Nie, Pengyu, Gligoric, Milos, Legunsen, Owolabi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2023 |
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| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| Popis: | We present pytest-inline, the first inline testing framework for Python. We recently proposed inline tests to make it easier to test individual program statements. But, there is no framework-level support for developers to write inline tests in Python. To fill this gap, we design and implement pytest-inline as a plugin for pytest, the most popular Python testing framework. Using pytest-inline, a developer can write an inline test by assigning test inputs to variables in a target statement and specifying the expected test output. Then, pytest-inline runs each inline test and fails if the target statement's output does not match the expected output. In this paper, we describe our design of pytest-inline, the testing features that it provides, and the intended use cases. Our evaluation on inline tests that we wrote for 80 target statements from 31 open-source Python projects shows that using pytest-inline incurs negligible overhead, at 0.012x. pytest-inline is integrated into the pytest-dev organization, and a video demo is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZgiAxR_uJg. Comment: Accepted as a tool demo paper at ICSE DEMO 2023 |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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