[Python] Should I use a testing framework if I want to run a set of commands, record the...

I'm a bit confused of the best method of doing this. Lets say I want to run a command on linux and store the output (I've thought of creating a JSON file and storing "runs" of when this command was last ran), and I want to then compare the command output against a previous run (I regex the output from the command dump and store that in the JSON section and can use this to compare to previous JSON inserts).

Would using a testing framework for this be overkill?

def test_01():
result = run_command_on_linux()
log_result(result)
assert(...)


I feel like a testing framework would be best for organizing running commands with different arguments, but I'm a bit hung up on what I would be asserting. I could create a function that compares the last two outputs in that JSON file, and return true if the last one is a better output, and then assert that.

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