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Test Driven Python Development

Test Driven Python Development

By : Siddharta Govindaraj
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Test Driven Python Development

Test Driven Python Development

4.4 (5)
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.
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Chapter 7. Executable Documentation with doctest

Throughout this book, we have emphasized the need for code to be self-documenting as far as possible. We have mentioned how the cool docstring feature of Python helps us in this objective. There is one problem with documentation in general—it can easily go out of sync with the code. Many times we have seen changes to the code, but the corresponding change is not made to the documentation, leaving a new developer confused about how the code actually works. Enter the doctest module to our rescue.

The doctest module allows us to specify examples inside our docstrings. The module then extracts the examples, runs them, and verifies that they still work.

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