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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

Summary


In this chapter, you took a look at Python's doctest module. You saw how it helps you embed examples within docstrings. You looked at different ways to write doctests including method and package docstrings. You also looked at moving package level doctests into a separate file and running them. Maintaining doctests is important, and you looked at ways to maintain doctests better, using setup and teardown and including them in the regular test suite. Finally, you looked at some limitations and how you can use directives to overcome some of the limitations.

In the next chapter, you will get your first introduction to third-party tools with a look at the nose2 package.