Consider using pytest instead of unittest

[MartinFlores751]

Think this might be of interest...

Pros:

• pytest has pytest-xdist for parallel testing, (pytest-parallel supports parallel & concurrent, but it's not maintained...)
• fancy test additions

Bonus:

• plugins
• tests don't have to be classes/part of a class
• pytest can run existing unittest tests

Cons:

• We have to install pytest & desired plugins, not baked in like unittest
• fancy test additions (have to learn something new)
• tests need to be written with parallelism in mind (if parallel tests wanted)

Mini example of 4 tests:

import pytest
import requests

@pytest.mark.parametrize("username, password, expected_result", [('rods','rods',200),
                                                                 ('','',401),
                                                                 ('not','valid',401),
                                                                 ('a'*200,'b'*200, 401)])
def test_post_basic_login(username, password, expected_result):
    auth_url = 'http://127.0.0.1:9000/irods-http-api/0.1.0/authenticate'

    res = requests.post(auth_url, auth=(username, password))

    # Got a good code, assume we passed...
    assert res.status_code == expected_result