The simple application I demoed at PyCon '08 during my talk on the OLPC and testing is now available: I call it "peekaboo".
peekaboo is a way to watch your code being executed in another process using sys.settrace, figleaf, and XML-RPC.
The two screencasts below should explain it.
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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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Here are some of the materials from my PyCon activities:
The tutorial source code (which is really just a cut down version of my PyCon '07 talk's source code; see the README and my blog post from back then).
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Kumar MacMillan pointed me towards GUITAR, a framework built by Atif Memon and others. There's a YouTube video of him and Adam Porter talking at the Google Test Automation Conference (2007).
Looks and sounds interesting. Also nice to note that GUITAR is being open-sourced...
--titus
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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.
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I'm at PyCon, and I have a tip for people: don't stay at the same hotel as everyone else.
My hotel room Internet connection is great, perhaps in part because I'm not sharing it with the rest of the PyCon attendees! (Plus it's free -- the DoubleTree wireless Internet doesn't charge …
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