Hypothesis is about property-based testing, and only partially overlaps with
standard testing functionality.

Luiz Irber in my lab gave a presentation a few weeks back on applying it
to khmer:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1GIrb9pMvfto-reHc_85yqnlSrOFexsgGwue1YPrx5H0/edit

best,
--titus

On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 06:33:34PM -0500, Maxime Boissonneault wrote:
> I have heard much good about Hypothesis  
> (https://hypothesis.readthedocs.org/en/latest/).
>
> https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2zw41r/hypothesis_is_an_advanced_quickcheck_style/
>
> Maxime
>
> Le 2016-02-10 18:24, W. Trevor King a ?crit :
>> On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 02:07:20PM -0800, Steven Haddock wrote:
>>> I think this has been discussed before (maybe even raised by me?),
>>> but what is the current favorite test library for python, since that
>>> nose and nose2 are not being maintained.
>>> ?
>>> A priority would be minimal boilerplate required?
>> Python's builtin unittest supports automatic test discovery since v3.2
>> [1], and subtests (new in v3.4 [2]) address my most common boilerplate
>> concerns from Python 2.  I don't find defining TestCase subclasses to
>> be that big a drag ;).
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Trevor
>>
>> [1]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/unittest.html#unittest-test-discovery
>> [2]: 
>> https://docs.python.org/3/library/unittest.html#distinguishing-test-iterations-using-subtests
>>
>>
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