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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

Refactoring tests


With the first test passing, we can go ahead with the second test:

    def test_increasing_trend_is_false_if_price_decreases(self):
        timestamps = [datetime(2014, 2, 11), datetime(2014, 2, 12), \ 
            datetime(2014, 2, 13)]
        prices = [8, 12, 10]
        for timestamp, price in zip(timestamps, prices):
            self.goog.update(timestamp, price)
        self.assertFalse(self.goog.is_increasing_trend())

Our implementation already passes this test, so let us move on to the third test:

    def test_increasing_trend_is_false_if_price_equal(self):
        timestamps = [datetime(2014, 2, 11), datetime(2014, 2, 12), \ 
            datetime(2014, 2, 13)]
        prices = [8, 10, 10]
        for timestamp, price in zip(timestamps, prices):
            self.goog.update(timestamp, price)
        self.assertFalse(self.goog.is_increasing_trend())

The current code passes this test as well. But let us pause at this point. If we look at the test cases so far, we can...