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Hands-On Reactive Programming with Python

By : Romain Picard
Book Image

Hands-On Reactive Programming with Python

By: Romain Picard

Overview of this book

Reactive programming is central to many concurrent systems, but it’s famous for its steep learning curve, which makes most developers feel like they're hitting a wall. With this book, you will get to grips with reactive programming by steadily exploring various concepts This hands-on guide gets you started with Reactive Programming (RP) in Python. You will learn abouta the principles and benefits of using RP, which can be leveraged to build powerful concurrent applications. As you progress through the chapters, you will be introduced to the paradigm of Functional and Reactive Programming (FaRP), observables and observers, and concurrency and parallelism. The book will then take you through the implementation of an audio transcoding server and introduce you to a library that helps in the writing of FaRP code. You will understand how to use third-party services and dynamically reconfigure an application. By the end of the book, you will also have learned how to deploy and scale your applications with Docker and Traefik and explore the significant potential behind the reactive streams concept, and you'll have got to grips with a comprehensive set of best practices.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Chapter 10

Why is it important to find defects as quickly as possible?

Issues are fixed more easily and quickly when they are detected early. The cost of fixing an issue increases exponentially with the time elapsed since the associated code was written. So, finding defects as soon as possible makes the code more stable, faster, and cheaper than when they are detected late in the software development process.

What are the different kinds of software testing?

There are three big categories of software testing:

  • Unit tests, which test functions
  • Integration tests, which test the integration with dependent components
  • System tests, which are end-to-end tests of the entire application

What is a test case in unit testing?

A test case is a group of tests. A test case allows us to group all tests of the same feature.

Why should tests be written before the actual code?

Writing tests before...