Welcome to the marbles documentation!
Marbles is a unittest extension that allows test authors to write richer tests that expose more information on test failure. You can use marbles anywhere you use unittest to get better failure messages that help you debug failing tests faster.
$ python -m marbles hello_world.py
F
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FAIL: test_hello_world (hello_world.HelloWorldTestCase)
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marbles.core.marbles.ContextualAssertionError: 'Hello, world!' != 'Bonjour, le monde!'
- Hello, world!
+ Bonjour, le monde!
Source (hello_world.py):
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> 12 self.assertEqual(english, french, note=note)
13
Locals:
english=Hello, world!
french=Bonjour, le monde!
Note:
Welcome to your first marbles test!
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Ran 1 test in 0.002s
FAILED (failures=1)
Philosophy
The main idea behind marbles is that test failures are documentation. We wanted failure messages that put failures in context and clearly communicate the author’s intent with each test. We wanted failure messages that give test consumers enough information that they don’t have to dig through test code to understand what’s going on. And, we wanted test authors to start thinking about test failures as documentation for test consumers, whether that’s them in a few months or someone completely new to to the test suite, to help everyone get in the habit of writing better, clearer tests.
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