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Test-Driven Python Development

By : Siddharta Govindaraj
Book Image

Test-Driven Python Development

By: Siddharta Govindaraj

Overview of this book

This book starts with a look at the test-driven development process, and how it is different from the traditional way of writing code. All the concepts are presented in the context of a real application that is developed in a step-by-step manner over the course of the book. While exploring the common types of smelly code, we will go back into our example project and clean up the smells that we find. Additionally, we will use mocking to implement the parts of our example project that depend on other systems. Towards the end of the book, we'll take a look at the most common patterns and anti-patterns associated with test-driven development, including integration of test results into the development process.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Test-Driven Python Development
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Documenting our tests


When we run the tests, we get the following output:

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ERROR: test_stock_update (__main__.StockTest)
An update should set the price on the stock object
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "stock_alerter\stock.py", line 22, in test_stock_update
    goog.update(datetime(2014, 2, 12), price=10)
AttributeError: 'Stock' object has no attribute 'update'

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Ran 2 tests in 0.001s
FAILED (errors=1)

The test fails as expected, but the interesting thing is that the first line of the docstring is printed out on the fourth line. This is useful because we get some more information on which case is failing. This shows a second way of documenting out tests by using the first line for a short summary, and the rest of the docstring for a more detailed explanation. The detailed explanation...