For unit tests I usually have a test/ folder next to my src/ folder, that duplicates the folder structure. My brain prefers things being seperate from eachother (resources, source code per language, tests) and this is afaik the only way that you can keep it consistent between different languages (C# for example needs a seperate unit test project)

For unit tests, I put them within a folder parallel to the source code. The directory in that folder matches the module hierarchy.

A flat structure can work for extremely small projects, but things start to go sideways as the code base grows.

Putting the test files alongside the source files makes it harder work with from a project management perspective:

• pytest has to check more files when doing discovery, which makes the tests take longer
• It is significantly harder to configure mypy to a more lenient set of rules for test code.
• It is harder to package/deploy only the runtime code

If the project is big enough to have integration tests, I prefer to have those in their own folder like the unit test folder. It is possible to mark tests into different categories, but putting them in a dedicated folder makes it is harder for people to forget to mark an integration test.

My projects are usually laid out like this at work:

src/
  — module_1/
    — some_file.py
test/
  — module_1/
    — some_file_test.py

I just copy the Java dev structure for this.

Which is basically just a reflection of directories. Someone else mentioned it here.

Tests?

In an iPython terminal if I think of doing some, but I do want to implement something more formal soon.

See https://cjolowicz.github.io/posts/hypermodern-python-02-testing/