Automated testing in Python and beyond

by Brenda Wallace

Note

missed the beginning :(

Have unit tests

• Debugging is fast

• Find bugs elsewhere

• Blame

  • Feel free to point fingers at who did it

• look GOOD

• Nose!

  • Finds tests and runs them
  • Logging capture
  • STDOUT

• Running single tests

Disney Stuff

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• Pythoscope

  • http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pythoscope
  • Reads your python
  • Writes a stub unit test for all your methods
  • “You’ll have 100% code coverage and everything will fail!”

Other language test frameworks

Everyone forks and no one works together

Java

• JUnit
• JTiger
• TestNG
• Looks like Python, but with more words

Perl

• PerlUnit
• Over 60 other test frameworks!!!

PHP

• PhpUnit
• SimpleTest is cool

Erlang

• EUnit
• Best intro to testing ever.

Write Tests

• Write tests before you write code

  • I switched from the Shell to writing Unit Tests as well!
  • This is how I write a huge majority of my tests.

Re-run

• Hudson/Jenkins

  • Oracle Sucks

• Just do it

• I want this to have a service to do setup for you.