5.3. Test File Standards

Here are the standards for building test files.

5.3.1. Available Test Types

The types of tests available are a subset of the assertion types that are made available with Python’s unittest framework. To see more about the tests available in unittest, check out their documentation .

The list of available tests in etlTest is as follows:

etlTest Type	unittest Type	Test Description
Equal	assertEqual	Are given and expected equal?
NotEqual	assertNotEqual	Are given and expected no equal?
BooleanTrue	assertTrue	Is given true?
BooleanFalse	assertFalse	Is given false?
Is	assertIs	Are given and expected the same object?
IsNot	assertIsNot	Are given and expected not the same object?
IsNone	assertIsNone	Is given None?
IsNotNone	assertIsNotNone	Is given not None?
In	assertIn	Is given in expected?
NotIn	assertNotIn	Is given not in expected?
IsInstance	assertIsInstance	Is given an instance of expected?
IsNotInstance	assertIsNotInstance	Is given not an instance of expected?