pyssertive

Fluent, chainable assertions for everything you test in Python. One vocabulary — from a single value to HTTP responses, JSON, HTML, MCP, and architecture. Inspired by Laravel's elegant testing API.

Full documentation lives at othercodes.github.io/pyssertive.

• Installation
• Quickstart
• Guides: Expectations · HTTP · JSON · HTML · Database · Architecture · MCP
• API Reference

• One fluent vocabulary for any value, response, or contract under test
• HTTP status code assertions (2xx, 3xx, 4xx, 5xx)
• JSON response validation with path navigation, fragments, and JSON Schema contract testing
• HTML content assertions with CSS-selector scoping
• Template, context, session, cookie, and header assertions
• Streaming response and file download assertions
• Architecture assertions for import boundaries, layers, and bounded-context isolation
• MCP (Model Context Protocol) assertions with MCP-native vocabulary
• Debug helpers for test development

• Python 3.10+
• Django 4.2, 5.2, or 6.0 (optional, only if using the Django adapter)
• httpx 0.27+ (optional, only if using the httpx adapter for FastAPI/Starlette/FastMCP)

pip install pyssertive            # core
pip install pyssertive[django]    # with Django adapter
pip install pyssertive[httpx]     # with httpx adapter (FastAPI, Starlette, FastMCP)

from pyssertive import expect

# Generic values — one vocabulary for anything
expect(42).equals(42)
expect([1, 2, 3]).has_count(3).contains(2).does_not_contain(99)
expect("alice@example.com").is_instance_of(str).matches(r".+@.+")

# The same expect dispatches to specialized assertables
expect.json(payload).where("status", "active").missing("password")
expect.html(markup).see_text("Welcome back, Alice")
expect.arch("myapp.domain").should_only_depend_on(["stdlib", "myapp.domain"])

HTTP responses chain fluently from a test client:

import pytest
from pyssertive.adapters.django import FluentHttpAssertClient


@pytest.fixture
def client():
    from django.test import Client
    return FluentHttpAssertClient(Client())


@pytest.mark.django_db
def test_user_api(client):
    client.get("/api/users/")\
        .assert_ok()\
        .assert_json_path("count", 10)\
        .assert_header("Content-Type", "application/json")

See the documentation for the full guides and API reference.

MIT — see LICENSE.