All You Need to Know to Start Using Fixtures in Your pytest Code

Setting up test cases for code that manage data can be challenging but it’s an important skill to reliably test your code. You might have heard of the setup and teardown methods in unittest. In pytest you use fixtures and as you will discover in this article they are actually not that hard to set up. Fixtures have been labelled pytest’s killer feature so let’s explore them in this article using a practical example.