inline-snapshot

inline-snapshot

I'm a big fan of snapshot testing, where expected values are captured the first time a test suite runs and then asserted against in future runs. It's a very productive way to build a robust test suite.

inline-snapshot by Frank Hoffmann is a particularly neat implementation of the pattern. It defines a snapshot() function which you can use in your tests:

assert 1548 * 18489 == snapshot()

When you run that test using "pytest --inline-snapshot=create" the snapshot() function will …

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