Examples and customization tricks ​

Here is a (growing) list of examples. Contact us if you need more examples or have questions. Also take a look at the comprehensive documentation which contains many example snippets as well. Also, pytest on stackoverflow.com often comes with example answers.

For basic examples, see

• Get Started for basic introductory examples

• How to write and report assertions in tests for basic assertion examples

• Fixtures for basic fixture/setup examples

• How to parametrize fixtures and test functions for basic test function parametrization

• How to use unittest-based tests with pytest for basic unittest integration

• How to run tests written for nose for basic nosetests integration

The following examples aim at various use cases you might encounter.

• Demo of Python failure reports with pytest

• Basic patterns and examples

• Parametrizing tests

• Working with custom markers

• A session-fixture which can look at all collected tests

• Changing standard (Python) test discovery

• Working with non-python tests