This month I gave a presentation to introduce MadPUG’s members to Testing. The topics we covered were:
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Testing Philosophy
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What is a unit of code?
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What is a unit test?
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What is an integration test?
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What is test independence and why is it important?
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What is code coverage? Why is it important? What is it good for?
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Test Driven Development
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Unittest - The Python Standard Library
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Examples of tests written with unittest.
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Examples of how to extend unittest.
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Py.test and why it is great.
- Using py.test’s fixtures.
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Mock
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What is a mock?
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Mocking out objects.
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Patching objects and instances of objects.
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When using the mock library is not appropriate.
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The example code and tests that were written for the presentation are available under the MIT License on GitHub.
