This video presents Google Code convictions about creating tests for test-unfriendly code and the larger topic of testing. Project Hosting at Google Code is a large, well-established system written mostly in Python. When launched, Project Hosting’s testing consisted of the stock Subversion test suite and a handful of ad hoc smoke test scripts that required starting the entire system and manually inspecting the test’s output.
Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) is a different way of approaching the “how to validate your code” problem. It aims to help focus development on the delivery of prioritized, verifiable business value by providing a common vocabulary. This video discusses various ways to try out BDD in Python, from the periodically maligned doctests to simple unittest module usages to more specialized modules.
This article presents a strategy for unit testing in Python, using a set of utility functions that converts to and from Roman numerals. The author discusses the benefits of a Test-Driven Development (TDD) approach and propose a detailed testing process for all the cases of the functions.
This article explains how to perform HTTP request-response tests of ASP.NET Web applications using IronPython, a .NET Framework-compliant implementation of Python.
This article covers the coverage analysis of Python: * Building a network management application * Installing and running coverage on your test suite * Generating an HTML report using coverage * Generating an XML report using coverage * Getting nosy with coverage
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