Note: this is ultimately intended for the biology-in-python Wiki at http://bio.scipy.org/. I will release it under a CC license, so please feel free to use it for your own site! --titus
Here are some prescriptions for writing Python code that other Python programmers will find more usable …
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It's been a busy few weeks, in part because I've been writing a grant. Last Thursday, I submitted a grant proposal to NIH for their program announcement, Continued Development and Maintenance of Software. The proposal was to continue maintaining Cartwheel, while integrating a new visualization frontend (MUSSA) and a fast …
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I'm in the process of writing up a "when and how to test" screed, and I discovered this:
Karl Fogel's book, Producing Open Source Software, has precisely two keyword hits to testing in the ToC.
WTF?
--titus
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Posted by Ricardo Niederberger Cabral on 2007-08-22 at 17:00.
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Thanks to a kind invitation by Fernando Perez, I was alerted to a BoF on Python/testing at SciPy. He made the mistake of introducing me as "the resident expert" so I felt even less inhibited than normal, which was hopefully not too problematic...
Gael Varoquaux took notes.
Basically, this …
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The O'Reilly bookstore didn't actually let you buy our Introduction to Testing Web Applications with twill and Selenium for the first 24 hours -- some bug on the Web site, apparently...
(See? That's why you need to buy it!)
--titus
p.s. Jason wants to make sure you know that the …
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Check out our e-book, An Introduction to Testing Web Applications with twill and Selenium! And please, let us know what you think...
--titus
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Recently seen on a list (with a nasty archival system that I don't want to link to):
"Don't write a test plan. Instead, test."
-- Bret Pettichord
Need I say more?
Probably.
One of the most important tenets of agility (<-- little 'a' ;), in my opinion, is to not overthink. Unless you're …
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