pytest

The pytest testing tool makes it easy to write small tests, yet scales to support complex functional testing.

Features

auto-discovery of test modules and functions,
detailed info on failing assert statements (no need to remember self.assert* names)
modular fixtures for managing small or parametrized long-lived test resources.
multi-paradigm support: you can use pytest to run test suites based on unittest (or trial), nose
single-source compatibility from Python2.6 all the way up to Python3.5, PyPy-2.3, (jython-2.5 untested)
many external plugins.

A simple example for a test:

System Message: ERROR/3 (README.rst, line 43)

Unknown directive type "code-block".

.. code-block:: python

    # content of test_module.py
    def test_function():
        i = 4
        assert i == 3

which can be run with py.test test_module.py. See getting-started for more examples.

For much more info, including PDF docs, see

http://pytest.org

and report bugs at:

https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues

and checkout or fork repo at:

https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest