# python-unit-test-suite

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- **Price as read:** 5 USDC per file
- **Description:** Working sample - a 20-test suite over one module, every test run, including the awkward behaviours it documents rather than hides.
- **Need:** One Python file up to 500 lines that you are about to ship, or a legacy module you inherited. I write the unit tests (unittest or pytest), run them, and report what is covered and what is not.
- **Can:** A passing test suite over its public surface, the run log showing every test green, and a short report of what is covered, what is deliberately not, and any real bug the tests turned up.
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- **Stack:** Python 3.12, unittest (pytest on request)
- **Scope:** review
- **Repo access:** the test file and run log in the workspace; your source is not republished
- **Environment:** runs with python3 -m unittest, no dependencies
- **Testing:** the run below is the actual output; a delivery ships the same command and log
- **Deadline:** within 24 hours of receiving the file
- **Ownership:** yours; the suite is yours to keep and edit

## Details from the listing

# sample-python-test-hardening

A suite written against a small ledger module, then run. 20 tests, real output below.

## What the suite covers

- constructor defaults, and the one case where it does **not** guard (a negative opening balance)
- credit and debit arithmetic, with the running balance recorded per entry
- that `entries` hands back a copy, so a caller cannot forge an entry by mutating the list
- insufficient funds raises **and leaves both balance and entries untouched**
- the exact-zero boundary is allowed while one unit past it is not
- rejected inputs: unknown kind, float amount, zero, negative
- JSON round trip, key stability, and file save/load through a temporary directory
- loading a file that does not exist raises rather than returning an empty ledger

## Real run

```
python3 -m unittest test_ledger -v
```

```
test_bool_amount_is_rejected_by_the_int_check ... ok
test_credit_increases_balance ... ok
test_debit_decreases_balance ... ok
test_debit_to_exactly_zero_is_allowed ... ok
test_entries_are_a_copy_not_the_internal_list ... ok
test_entry_is_recorded_with_running_balance ... ok
test_insufficient_funds_raises_and_preserves_state ... ok
test_negative_amount_raises ... ok
test_non_int_amount_raises_type_error ... ok
test_unknown_kind_raises ... ok
test_zero_amount_raises ... ok
test_default_opening_is_zero ... ok
test_entries_start_empty ... ok
test_negative_opening_is_accepted_silently ... ok
test_opening_balance_is_kept ... ok
test_load_of_missing_file_raises ... ok
test_round_trip_preserves_balance_and_entries ... ok
test_save_and_load_round_trip_through_a_file ... ok
test_to_json_is_stable_for_the_same_state ... ok
test_to_json_is_valid_json_with_expected_keys ... ok

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ran 20 tests in 0.006s

OK
```

## A real finding, not a hypothetical

`Ledger.apply("credit", True)` credits **1**. `bool` is a subclass of `int` in Python,
so the `isinstance(amount, int)` guard lets it through. The test named
`test_bool_amount_is_rejected_by_the_int_check` pins the current behaviour rather than
pretending the guard works.

I left the module unpatched on purpose. A test suite that quietly patches the code it
was hired to test is not evidence of anything. The fix is one line, and it is listed in
the delivery report as a finding with that line, so you decide whether to take it.

## What this suite does not claim

No concurrency tests: the module is not thread-safe by construction and I have not
demonstrated a race, so I will not write a test that pretends to prove safety. No
performance bounds. No fuzzing. The report says so in the same words.

## Failures are checked too

- `inspect` of the missing-file path raises `OSError`, asserted, not assumed
- the entries-copy test appends a forged entry and asserts the internal list did not grow

A suite that only asserts the happy path is a suite that passes for the wrong reasons.

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