I spent part of Saturday and Sunday working on Cartwheel, and then I spent part of Monday morning nailing down a bug that I thought I'd introduced. The process of tracking down and fixing this bug led me to give serious thanks for version control and automated tests, and at …
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This morning, I described my recent work-related activities to Tracy as "Whack-a-Mole". For those of you who aren't familiar with the Hasbro Whac-a-Mole game, it's a fun game for four year olds where you, err, hit moles on the head with a hammer as they pop up out of the …
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I've just finished the last rough draft of a short e-book, An Intro to Testing Web apps with twill and Selenium. The book has four sections:
- Introduction
- twill intro
- Selenium intro
- Testing an app with twill and Selenium
The "app" being tested in #4 is just the very simple poll …
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I'm in the early throes of building tests into my Cartwheel project. Cartwheel was one of the two projects that inspired my Web testing project, twill, so naturally I'm happy to finally be putting twill to good use in my own projects. Naturally the transition from building tools for building …
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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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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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After a fantastic presentation on subprocess at the SoCal Python Interest Group last June, I bought into it completely. That recently translated into making the twill unit tests work properly on Windows (I switched from fork() to subprocess) and also building some of the functional tests for Cartwheel. For the …
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