We're going through the PyCon '09 review process, and participating in the process has been pretty interesting. (I joined the Program Committee in large part because I was told to put up or shut up after I critiqued PyCon '08. Ahh, the open source world... where you're encouraged to go …
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At PyCon '08, I gave a talk on testing and the OLPC project where I referred to the "Testing Death Spiral". My accompanying slide, which aimed to be simple rather than comprehensive, had this scenario:
Write a bunch of code & manually test it.
(Good so far.)
Start adding features over …
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Just left PyCon yesterday; now I'm up in Michigan looking at some more houses, arranging lab stuff, talking with people, and getting ready to prosyletize the Google Summer of Code to a bunch of Michigan State CSE students as well as a few professors.
Some freeflow thoughts. Feel free to …
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Steve Holden and Doug Napoleone both attended our testing tutorial, (as did AMK, which was a bit of a surprise!), and had fairly positive things to say about it. This was a relief, because Grig and I always wonder whether or not this stuff is useful to anyone.
Our hope …
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As many people have doubtless read, PyCon '08 has announced the tutorial sessions. This year, Grig and I are doing a workshop-tutorial on testing rather than a teaching-tutorial; what this means is that our tutorial will focus on actually applying testing tools effectively to your source code.
We're billing this …
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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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