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Test Driven Python Development

You're reading from Test Driven Python Development Develop high-quality and maintainable Python applications using the principles of test-driven development

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2015

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781783987924

Length 264 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Test Driven Development

Author (1):

Siddharta Govindaraj

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface

1. Getting Started with Test-Driven Development FREE CHAPTER

2. Red-Green-Refactor – The TDD Cycle

3. Code Smells and Refactoring

4. Using Mock Objects to Test Interactions

5. Working with Legacy Code

6. Maintaining Your Test Suite

7. Executable Documentation with doctest

8. Extending unittest with nose2

9. Unit Testing Patterns

10. Tools to Improve Test-Driven Development

A. Answers to Exercises

B. Working with Older Python Versions

Index

Appendix A. Answers to Exercises

This Appendix contains answers to the exercises presented throughout this book. Keep in mind that there is no single correct solution for any of these exercises. There are many possible solutions, each with their own advantages and disadvantages. Wherever possible, I have mentioned why I took a certain path, so that you can see my reasoning and compare the pros and cons with the solution that you have come up with.

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Authors (1)

Siddharta Govindaraj

Siddharta Govindaraj

Siddharta Govindaraj first encountered Python in 2002, and it has remained his favorite programming language ever since. He was an early participant in BangPypers, India's first Python community, and a speaker at InPycon. He is the founder of Silver Stripe Software, an Indian product start-up that develops products based on Python. A vocal proponent of the language, Siddharta extols the virtues of Python to anyone who will listenand also to those who won't. His blog is at http://www.siddharta.me.

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