For my own future reference, as well as to attract people to the fairly high signal testing-in-python mailing list, here are some particularly interesting posts to the TIP list.
Raphael Marvie implements a simple textual specification -> test suite generator.
Kumar McMillan makes some nice suggestions for Michal's "spec" nose plugin …
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I've put together a brief discussion, with links to the source code, surrounding the demos I did at PyCon '07 during my testing tools talk. Here's a brief TOC:
# Demo 1: Testing CherryPy # Demo 2: Testing CherryPy without exec'ing a process # Demo 3: Basic code coverage analysis with figleaf # Demo …read more
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Michal Kwiatkowski and I just released pinocchio 0.1, a collection of plugins for nose. It's got my figleaf section recording plugin, figleafsections, and it's also got Michal's spec plugin, which lets you write tests like this:
class TestFoobar:
def test_is_a_singleton(self):
pass
def test_can_be_automatically_documented(self):
pass
which, during the …
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OK, this is one thing I love about Python -- in my entry on "five things I hate about Python" (which achieved "entry worth bashing" status on reddit; go provocative titles!), I complained about the difficulty in getting patches submitted.
AMK read this and posted about it to the python-dev mailing …
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Brian D. Foy claims that if you want to be an effective advocate for a language, you need to be able to answer the question, "What are five things you hate about it?"
Hmm, lessee. I actually have a tough time coming up with five things off the top of …
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Voidspace makes a mildly provocative post about how testing seems to be more emphasized in the Ruby community.
I'm not entirely sure I agree, but then again I'm firmly embedded in the Python testing community and I might have a slightly biased view ;).
What I am sure about is that …
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I have been asked to submit an outline for a three day course on Python, for ~20 scientists who already know basic Python. On fairly short notice, I came up with the following; what am I missing? (I plan to make the course materials publicly available, of course.)
(Note that …
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