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<h1>Welcome to Hypothesis!<a class="headerlink" href="#welcome-to-hypothesis" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p><a class="reference external" href="http://hypothesis.works">Hypothesis</a> is a Python library for
creating unit tests which are simpler to write and more powerful when run,
finding edge cases in your code you wouldn’t have thought to look for. It is
stable, powerful and easy to add to any existing test suite.</p>
<p>It works by letting you write tests that assert that something should be true
for every case, not just the ones you happen to think of.</p>
<p>Think of a normal unit test as being something like the following:</p>
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<li>Set up some data.</li>
<li>Perform some operations on the data.</li>
<li>Assert something about the result.</li>
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<p>Hypothesis lets you write tests which instead look like this:</p>
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<li>For all data matching some specification.</li>
<li>Perform some operations on the data.</li>
<li>Assert something about the result.</li>
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<p>This is often called property based testing, and was popularised by the
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<p>It works by generating random data matching your specification and checking
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it takes that example and cuts it down to size, simplifying it until it finds a
much smaller example that still causes the problem. It then saves that example
for later, so that once it has found a problem with your code it will not forget
it in the future.</p>
<p>Writing tests of this form usually consists of deciding on guarantees that
your code should make - properties that should always hold true,
regardless of what the world throws at you. Examples of such guarantees
might be:</p>
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<li>Your code shouldn’t throw an exception, or should only throw a particular type of exception (this works particularly well if you have a lot of internal assertions).</li>
<li>If you delete an object, it is no longer visible.</li>
<li>If you serialize and then deserialize a value, then you get the same value back.</li>
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