Python Testing Training

This course describes an opinionated, brutally programtic method of performing unit, integration, and functional testing of Python software. A minimal number of programmers were hurt during its creation.

Contents:

• Trainer
• A Cynical Introduction To Testing
  • Don’t Feel Bad
  • All Code Is Terrible
  • How Do I Avoid Shame?
  • I Mean Everything
  • Proving It Works Isn’t The Goal
  • But It Makes Me Slower
  • Don’t Be Afraid To Throw It Away
• Testing Types
  • Unit Tests
  • Integration Tests
  • Functional Tests
  • When Do I Write Which Ones?
• Installing Requirements
  • Install Python 2.7
  • Set an Environment Variable
  • Install setuptools (Python packaging tools)
  • Create a Virtual Environment
  • Activate Your Virtual Environment
  • Checking It’s Working
  • Conclusion
• Introduction to unittest
  • Writing Your First Test Case
  • What Is The Test Testing?
  • Running The Test Suite
  • What Just Happened?
  • Interpreting Output
  • Let’s Break Things
  • What Happened?
  • Let’s Break Things Again
  • What Just Happened
  • Alternate Command-Line Features of unittest
  • Running A Single Test
  • Conclusions
• Mechanics of Running Project Tests
  • Checking Out the Repository
  • Installing the Project
  • Running The Tests
  • What Did I Just Do?
  • Alternate Way of Running The Tests
  • Which Way?
  • Directory Layout of Test-Related Files
  • Fixing It
  • Conclusions
• Growing A Project With Tests
  • Code Description
  • Adding Unit Tests
  • Under The Covers
  • What Failure Looks Like
  • Using Unittest Helper Methods
  • Seeing Errors
  • assertRaises
  • Adding Coverage Reporting
  • Running Tests via nosetests
  • Testing the Portfolio.sell() method
  • Uh Oh. Code That Integrates With Another System
  • Stubs
  • Stubbing urllib
  • Mocks
  • Mocks or Stubs?
  • Discussion
  • Coda: setUp and tearDown
• Functional Tests
  • Adding a UI to Our Portfolio
  • Adding Functional Tests
  • Improving the Application
  • A Real World Test Suite
• Workflow
  • Adding A Feature: General Steps
  • Adding A Feature: Antipatterns
  • Adding A Feature: Demonstration
  • Fixing a Bug: General Steps
  • Fixing a Bug: Antipatterns
  • Fixing A Bug: Demonstration
• Unit Testing Tenets
  • Goals
  • Rules
  • Guidelines
  • Conclusions
  • Demonstration
• Tools
  • unittest2
  • doctest
  • nose
  • py.test
  • tox
  • detox
  • sphinx testing integration
  • git bisect
  • Condition/Decision coverage
• Continuous Integration
  • Travis
  • Jenkins
• Common Test Problems and Their Solutions
  • SQLAlchemy databases
  • Mongo databases
  • Pyramid configuration
• Workshop (second half of day)
  • Bring Your Own Code!

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page