• Setup and Teardown

• Benefits of Test Fixtures

  • code reuse
  • cleanup of resources
  • errors vs failures
  • focusing your thinking on what you are testing and what you are not
  • scoping for efficiency
• Brief look at pytest named fixtures

References

• pytest fixtures series
• pytest fixtures nuts & bolts
• pytest session scoped fixtures
• unittest fixtures
• nose fixtures mentioned in introduction
• nose fixture reference post