mock module in Python
Explore how to use Python's unittest.mock module to replace parts of your system with mock objects during testing. Understand how mocking helps isolate code, simulate external resources, and avoid unwanted side effects like interacting with third-party services or altering databases. Gain practical skills for writing safer, more reliable tests.
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The unittest module now includes a mock submodule as of Python 3.3.
It will allow us to replace portions of the system that we are testing with mock objects as well as make assertions about how they were used. A mock object is used for simulating system resources that aren’t available in our test environment.
In other words, we will find times when we want to ...