Interview with Robert Collins, current core maintainer of Python’s unittest module.
Some of the topics covered
- How did Robert become the maintainer of unittest?
- unittest2 as a rolling backport of unittest
- test and class parametrization with subtest and testscenarios
- Which extension to unittest most closely resembles Pytest fixtures?
- Comparing Pytest and unittest
- Will unittest ever get assert rewriting?
- Future changes to unittest
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