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Installation and Getting Started

testbook is a unit testing framework for testing code in Jupyter Notebooks.

Installing testbook

pip install testbook

Create your first test

Consider the following code cell in a Jupyter Notebook,

def foo(x):
    return x + 1

Here is the unit test for it which must be written in a Python module (.py file).

from testbook import testbook

@testbook('/path/to/notebook.ipynb', execute=True)
def test_foo(tb):
    foo = tb.ref("foo")

    assert foo(2) == 3

That’s it! You can now execute the test.

General workflow when using testbook to write a unit test

  1. Use testbook.testbook as a decorator or context manager to specify the path to the Jupyter Notebook. Passing execute=True will execute all the cells, and passing execute=['cell-tag-1', 'cell-tag-2'] will only execute specific cells identified by cell tags.

  2. Obtain references to objects under test using the .ref method.

  3. Write the test!

Welcome to testbook Usage