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Re:Show HN: Python Tests That Write Themselves by hchasestevens on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @01:22PM (#21007656)

This is neatly packaged, but it's not immediately clear what advantages it has over Hypothesis' native offerings for accomplishing this? ( https://hypothesis.readthedocs.io/en/latest/details.html#inf... and https://hypothesis.readthedocs.io/en/latest/data.html#hypoth... )

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Re:Show HN: Python Tests That Write Themselves by timothycrosley on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @01:42PM (#21007885)

It's an extension for hypothesis, and its value is 100% just convenience and accessibility. Really, it's meant to be a sort of gateway to doing full property-based testing, in the least barrier way possible. I wrote a bit more about why I created it here: https://timothycrosley.com/project-5-hypothesis-auto

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Re:Show HN: Python Tests That Write Themselves by OJFord on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @06:07PM (#21010794)

Hypothesis' `infer` is inferring arguments to the test fn, that you'd then use to drive the fn under test.

OP's extension is inferring arguments to the fn under test, and then generating a test like 'assert isinstancee(fn_under_test(a, *kw), expected_ret_type)` to go with them.

You can do more types of test with `infer` (i.e. not just 'does return' and 'returns correct type' but also 'returns correct value'), but this is an easy way to cover a lot of basic return checking ground.

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