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Python Testing: Beginner's Guide

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Overview of this book

<p>Automated testing moves much of the labor of testing off the developer and makes it easier as well as quicker to find bugs and fix them. Automated tests run faster, increase test coverage, and lower costs. However, testing is neither an easy process nor remotely exciting for most developers. But with the right techniques and tools, testing can become a simple and gratifying part of the development process.<br /><br />With this helpful guide – from an expert – in your hand, testing will not be a tiresome topic for you anymore. You will learn how to test your Python projects in the easiest way, making other parts of the development process easier and more enjoyable. <br /><br />This book covers the tools and techniques of automated testing and test-driven development. Starting from the very basics, the chapters introduce new tools and techniques in simple, accessible language with step-by-step examples. You will explore how to make testing easier and more accurate with Python's doctest module and learn test-driven development using the unittest framework. You will also learn how to keep your units separate from each other and discover a simple and easy way to integrate Mocker and unittest. Next, we cover integration testing and web application testing.<br /><br />Automated testing gives developers better feedback, faster and more often. Bugs get found sooner and fixed better, with less effort. By the end of this book, you will have all of the skills needed to benefit from automated testing.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Python Testing
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

About the Reviewers

Róman Joost is a professional Python software developer and a free software enthusiast, currently living in Australia. Since 2003, he has been contributing to the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) by writing documentation and contributing to the source code. He uses testing frameworks and test-driven methodologies extensively, when writing new components for the Z Object Publishing Environment (Zope) in Python.

Andrew Nicholson is a software engineer with over 12 years of professional commercial experience in a broad range of technologies. He is passionate about free and open source software (FOSS) and has actively participated in contributing code, ideas, and passion in the open source community since 1999.

Nicholson's biography can be read at http://infiniterecursion.com.au/people/.

Herjend Teny is an electrical engineering graduate from Melbourne who has come to love programming in Python after years of programming in mainline programming languages, such as C, Java, and Pascal.

He is currently involved in designing web application using Django for an Article Repository project on http://www.havingfunwithlinux.com/. The project would allow users to post their article for public view and bookmark it onto their favorite blog.