How to Use Pytest

Pytest is a mature full-featured testing tool for Python. It is useful when developing Python scripts. Pytest is not installed in the ADS Python installation.

The recommended steps to use Pytest are:

1. Create a Python virtual environment. See How to Set Up a Python Virtual Environment.

2. Activate the Python virtual environment.

3. Install pytest into the virtual environment.

   pip install pytest
   

4. Run pytest on your test scripts.

   cd path/to/tests
   pytest
   

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