Begin writing unit testing.

[ev3rl0ng]

Feature Request

Story

As a developer I want to write unit tests so that as we add new features / fix bugs in the code, individual pieces of the code are testable in an automated fashion.

Expected Benefits

Better quality code through regression prevention.

Considerations

To be fully effective in the cross-platform world we live in, the units tests would need to be run in multiple environments. Initially, we are only able to run them on the platform which the developer is developing. There is not a testing platform available to the project to run automated testing across multiple environments.

[ev3rl0ng]

@joshuashort do you have any preferences on what unit testing library we use here? I've got experience with both unittest and pytest. I like pytest's ability to parameterize a little better, but unittest has better support for objects imho.

[joshuashort]

I'd lean toward unittest, at least initially. It's nice to use builtins when possible. Probably not doctest though.. but maybe there's a world where that works 😄

[ev3rl0ng]

Sounds good to me!