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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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783987924
Length 264 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Siddharta Govindaraj Siddharta Govindaraj
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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

Running the examples in this book

The code examples in this book have been written for Python 3.4. They use some syntax that is not available in older versions of Python. Therefore, there are a few places we will need to change the code if we want to run the examples in, say, Python 2.6.

Note

The entire source code with all the changes below is available online at https://github.com/siddhi/test_driven_python. Get this code if you would like to run the example code in this book under Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, or 3.3

The following changes are required:

  • Enum: The Enum library is not in the standard library with older Python versions. It has been backported and can be installed from PyPi. Install the Enum34 library to use this feature.
  • set syntax: Newer versions of Python support the single curly braces shorthand syntax to create set objects like{"MSFT"}. In older versions, we will need to explicitly create sets with this equivalent longhand syntax: set(["MSFT"]).
  • print...
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