Avoid code repetition in the tests

[alessandrofelder]

Avoid code repetition using pytest.mark.parametrize

Now that you have written four different tests for times.py, take a step back and look at your code: There is a lot of repetition, almost every test (apart from the negative test) essentially does the same (albeit with different data), which makes our test code harder to change in the future. (You can start from the sample solution if you prefer.)

We can use pytest.mark.parametrize to get our tests DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself).

• You have seen pytest.mark.parametrize in the notes. Using the documentation of pytest.mark.parametrize if needed, see how you can compress most of the tests on a single one.

You will need the test function to accept parameters, for example time_range_1,time_range_2 and expected,
let the parametrize decorator know about it as its first argument and pass a list of tuples of length 3
with the values for each test.

What are the advantages and disadvantages of using parametrize in this case?

If you are finished with this issue, feel free to continue working the related issue #92 , looking at test fixtures.

A sample solution for this exercise can be found here.