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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

Languages

Python

Tools

Nose

Concepts

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

Summary

In this chapter, you looked at nose2, a powerful test runner and plugin suite, that extends the unittest framework. nose2 can be used as a drop-in replacement for the unittest test runner. It can also be used to extend unittest functionality with useful plugins. Finally, it can be used to write new types of tests such as function tests, parameterized tests, generated tests, and layer-based tests. nose2 also supports configuration files, so it can be run consistently between developers as well as integrating well with automation tools.

In the next chapter, you will take a look at some more advanced testing patterns.

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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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