For random and combinatorial testing, I should have mentioned my own
fork of quickcheck which I find very good and is actively developed
(even if it does not show much in the logs)

On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 4:33 PM, Maxime Boissonneault
<[email protected]> 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 écrit :
>
> 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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