I've been developing some pytest idioms at work (startup), in an attempt to make it not just part of the process, or a disapproving look at code review, or a "*shrug* well, that's startup culture #yolo #youonlylaunchonce"... but as a feature scaffolding tool. I figure, if it can help develop features *quicker*, peoples will *want* to use it.
Since you asked, of course I'll pause for a quick personal aside! Ya see, when I was growings up, my pa used to say "Zach, do whatever the hell you want, but only put on the credit card what you have in the bank." Working at a start-up, the pressure to fart out features sometimes makes skipping testing seem like it aligns with business goals. If my dad were here now, or understood anything about what I do for work, he'd slap their hands — "yeah, you can purchase the feature with your credit card, son, but you don't own it." Unlike regular debt, when technical debt piles up, and there's no time left in the day to work another job to pay it all off, there's no bankruptcy — there are only two options: forced labor, or DEATH! Anyway, I found with a more compact form of expression for test fixtures, I experimented more, and upon returning to those tests months later, I found I could skim through the code and grok it well. pytest-lambda <https://github.com/theY4Kman/pytest-lambda> offers `lambda_fixture`, which is essentially just `pytest.fixture` whose name is derived from the attribute it's assigned to. As well, for convenience, it also offers: - `static_fixture` — to return static value - `error_fixture` — to raise an exception - `not_implemented_fixture` — to raise a NotImplementedError, useful for abstract test mixins - `disabled_fixture` — to raise a HeyDontUseThisThingError (not really, but you get the idea), useful for failing early on known erroneous environments — 0xDEADBEEFing like the wholesome dev you are Also, I think this is my first message to the list, so, uh, hi, y'all! I'm Zach, I work for a cybersecurity startup. I fell in love with Python at an early age, embedding <https://github.com/theY4Kman/viper> it into Counter-Strike: Source 'cause I didn't want to use the C-like Pawn lang to write plugins. Years later, I discovered pytest and fell deeply in love. I gave a shot porting <https://github.com/theY4Kman/pysmx> the Pawn VM to Python, so people could test their plugins with pytest. One day I got my first tattoo, on the same day I got a Python tattoo, and can you believe it, on the same day I got my only tattoo. I'm occasionally long-winded, I think stuffy docs are unread docs, and it's a pleasure to meet y'all :) Cheers, Zach "theY4Kman" Kanzler
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