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This pytest-plugin allows capturing of output of test functions which can be compared to the captured output from former runs.

This is a common technique to start TDD if you have to refactor legacy code which ships without tests.

To install and activate this plugin execute:

$ pip install pytest-regtest

from your command line.

This py.test plugin provides a fixture named regtest for recording data by writing to this fixture, which behaves like an output stream:

from __future__ import print_function

def test_squares_up_to_ten(regtest):

    result = [i*i for i in range(10)]

    # one way to record output:
    print(result, file=regtest)

    # alternative method to record output:
    regtest.write("done")

If you run this test script with py.test the first time there is no recorded output for this test function so far and thus the test will fail with a message including a diff:

$ py.test
...

def test_squares_up_to_ten(regtest):
E
>       Regression test failed
>
>       --- is
>       +++ tobe
>       @@ -1,2 +1 @@
>       -[0, 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49, 64, 81]
>       -done
>       +

For accepting this output, we run py.test with the –reset-regtest flag:

$ py.test --regtest-reset

The recorded output is written to files in the subfolder _regtest_outputs next to your test script(s).

Now the next execution of py.test will succeed:

$ py.test

Other features

Another way to record output is the regtest_redirect fixture:

def test_squares_up_to_ten(regtest_redirect):

    result = [i*i for i in range(10)]

    with regtest_redirect():
        print result

You can reset recorded output of files and functions individually as:

$ py.test --regtest-reset tests/test_00.py
$ py.test --regtest-reset tests/test_00.py::test_squares_up_to_ten

To supress the diff and only see the stats use:

$ py.test --regtest-nodiff

If you want to see the during the test run recorded output use:

$ py.test --regtest-tee -s

If you develop on mixed platforms it might be usefull to ignore white spaces at the end of the lines when comparing output. This can be achieved by specifying:

$ py.test --regtest-ignore-line-endings

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