[Tutor] OT: "Your tests are only as good as your mocks." Comments?

Mats Wichmann mats at wichmann.us
Sun Jul 25 13:48:23 EDT 2021


On 7/25/21 11:14 AM, boB Stepp wrote:

> Python-specific question:  Does the Python ecosystem provide tools for
> creating and managing fakes?
> 

Well, there's this:

https://pypi.org/project/Faker/

there are a large bunch of wrappers that adapt this for particular 
environments.

I see there's a package called sqlfaker which may be unrelated 
code-wise, and looks like it might be dead.

and for more sophisticated generation of test data, look at Hypothesis.


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