In the Indirect parametrization example I want to type hint request.param indicating a specific type, a str for example. The problem is since the argument to fixt must be the request fixture there ...

I'm new to testing and I've stumbled across pytest fixtures, but I'm not entirely sure when to use them and why they're useful. For example, see the below code: import pytest @pytest.fixture def i...

I am using py.test to test some DLL code wrapped in a python class MyTester. For validating purpose I need to log some test data during the tests and do more processing afterwards. As I have many t...

I am having trouble loading Django fixtures into my MySQL database because of contenttypes conflicts. First I tried dumping the data from only my app like this: ./manage.py dumpdata escola > fi...

I generated a fixture: python manage.py dumpdata --all > ./mydump.json I emptied all my databases using: python manage.py sqlflush | psql mydatabase -U mydbuser But when i try to use loadd...

I'm running Django 1.7. My file tree for the project is as such: /project/app/fixtures/initial_data.json /project/app/settings.py I know I can run the python manage.py loaddata app/fixtures/init...

Since I've started using rspec, I've had a problem with the notion of fixtures. My primary concerns are this: I use testing to reveal surprising behavior. I'm not always clever enough to en...

The --no-interaction flag on the doctrine:fixtures:load command is not working running within a Symfony command. It is working however via the terminal. I'm I calling it correctly? When I run this...

I have a fixture that is returning an object of certain type and I have another fixture defined in another file that basically uses the object to do other things. But I am not able to return the ob...

The baseline of all my tests is that there will always be a taxi with at least one passenger in it. I can easily achieve this setup with some basic fixtures: from blah import Passenger, Taxi @pyt...

My parameters determine the name of my parameterized pytest. I will be using a some randomized params for these tests. In order for my reporting names in junit to not get messed up, I'd like to cre...

I'm trying to understand what conftest.py files are meant to be used for. In my (currently small) test suite I have one conftest.py file at the project root. I use it to define the fixtures that I ...

I am writing some tests using pytest many of which have similar fixtures. I want to put these "global" fixtures in a single file so that they can be reused across multiple test files. My first thou...

I am attempting to build a little pytest test to ensure all expected keys exist in redis. I have a list of expected keys, that I am storing as a YML file. The test itself will query against redis t...

I am using Symfony 3.4.0, I try to load fixtures with: php bin/console doctrine:fixtures:load An error occurred while creating the data, what's wrong?

For my web server, I have a login fixture that create a user and returns the headers needed to send requests. For a certain test, I need two users. How can I use the same fixture twice in one funct...

How do I regenerate all the YML fixture files? I accidentally deleted them.

Is there a way I can access test fixtures from within my factories? I'm trying to do something like: Factory.define do factory :foo do user { users(:active) } end end

My use case is to call fixture only if a certain condition is met. But since we need to call the pytest fixture as an argument to a test function it gets called every time I run the test. I want to...

First of all, the relevant portion of my project directory looks like: └── my_package ├── my_subpackage │ ├── my_module.py | └── other_module.py └── tests └── my_subpackage └── unit_test.py ...

Given the following code and tests: # some module from other.module import a_func # returns False by default def do_stuff(): return "banana" if a_func() else "pear" #######...

I have encountered something mysterious, when using patch decorator from mock package integrated with pytest fixture. I have two modules: -----test folder -------func.py -------test_test.py in ...

Consider the following code: fixtures.py @pytest.fixture def hello_world(): return "Hello world!" And then... basic_tests.py def test_says_hello(hello_world): assert hello_world == &qu...

I have a large set of Django test cases, all of which subclass either TestCase or TransactionTestCase. I need to add a fixture to all test cases (to handle a new way of handling settings in the dat...

I have updated pytest to 4.3.0 and now I need to rework test code since calling fixtures directly is deprecated. I have an issue with fixtures used in an unittest.TestCase, how do I get the value...