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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

Testing the new hms_core Classes

After going through the usual setup process for the unit tests of a module (creating the test module, executing the test module, creating test case classes for each item reported as missing, executing the test module, and creating test methods for each item reported as missing), the initial results show far fewer tests in need of implementation than in previous unit test modules, with only 11 tests that need to be populated:

There is a caveat to these results, though: they do not include tests of the data object methods required by BaseDataObject and HMSMongoDataObject, just of the properties and methods defined as part of the Artisan and Product classes that were created. Those, living in their own test module, add another 33 tests that need to be implemented:

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