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Hands-On Software Engineering with Python

By : Brian Allbee, Nimesh Verma
Book Image

Hands-On Software Engineering with Python

By: Brian Allbee, Nimesh Verma

Overview of this book

Software Engineering is about more than just writing code—it includes a host of soft skills that apply to almost any development effort, no matter what the language, development methodology, or scope of the project. Being a senior developer all but requires awareness of how those skills, along with their expected technical counterparts, mesh together through a project's life cycle. This book walks you through that discovery by going over the entire life cycle of a multi-tier system and its related software projects. You'll see what happens before any development takes place, and what impact the decisions and designs made at each step have on the development process. The development of the entire project, over the course of several iterations based on real-world Agile iterations, will be executed, sometimes starting from nothing, in one of the fastest growing languages in the world—Python. Application of practices in Python will be laid out, along with a number of Python-specific capabilities that are often overlooked. Finally, the book will implement a high-performance computing solution, from first principles through complete foundation.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
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Programming versus Software Engineering

Writing the unit tests

Most of the process of writing the unit tests for the new data object classes can simply follow the process established in previous iterations:

  1. Create the top-level test module for the package being tested.
  2. Identify the child modules of the package being tested, and create a corresponding test module for each.
  3. Add references to the child test modules to the package test module and import their tests.
  4. For each child test module:
    • Execute the module and create test case classes for each item reported as missing
    • Execute the module and create tests methods for each member (property or method) reported as missing

There are several test modules that need to be created, one for each module that was created in the src directories across the projects this iteration touched, yielding the following:

  • hms_core/../data_objects.py → test_hms_core/test_data_objects...