unittest — Easy Examples

Built-in unit testing framework (TestCase, assertions, runners)

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Getting started with unittest

Basic import and usage of the unittest module.

python
import unittest

class TestMath(unittest.TestCase):
    def test_add(self):
        self.assertEqual(1 + 1, 2)

    def test_multiply(self):
        self.assertEqual(3 * 4, 12)

# Run tests
suite = unittest.TestLoader().loadTestsFromTestCase(TestMath)
runner = unittest.TextTestRunner(verbosity=2)
runner.run(suite)

The unittest module is part of Python's standard library. Built-in unit testing framework (TestCase, assertions, runners).

Common unittest operations

Frequently used functions from the unittest module.

python
# More unittest examples
import unittest

print(f"unittest module loaded successfully")
print(f"Location: {unittest.__name__}")
print(f"Has {len(dir(unittest))} attributes")

These are the most commonly used features of the unittest module.

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