Introduction

PTBtest is test suite for developing python-telegram-bot driven Telegram bots. It lets you develop faster, since unit tests can be run without any dependency on contacting Telegram’s servers.

Its features include:

• Mockbot: A fake bot that does not contact Telegram servers;

• Works with the updater from telegram.ext;

• Generator classes to easily create Users, Chats and Updates.

Installation

PTBtest supports Python versions 3.9 and above. It’s recommended to use a virtual environment to isolate your project’s dependencies from other projects and the system. That said, you can install PTBtest with:

$ pip install ptbtest --upgrade

Dependencies

We strive for the least amount of dependencies, so, for now, PTBtest depends only on python-telegram-bot itself.