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Crafting Test-Driven Software with Python

By : Alessandro Molina
Book Image

Crafting Test-Driven Software with Python

By: Alessandro Molina

Overview of this book

Test-driven development (TDD) is a set of best practices that helps developers to build more scalable software and is used to increase the robustness of software by using automatic tests. This book shows you how to apply TDD practices effectively in Python projects. You’ll begin by learning about built-in unit tests and Mocks before covering rich frameworks like PyTest and web-based libraries such as WebTest and Robot Framework, discovering how Python allows you to embrace all modern testing practices with ease. Moving on, you’ll find out how to design tests and balance them with new feature development and learn how to create a complete test suite with PyTest. The book helps you adopt a hands-on approach to implementing TDD and associated methodologies that will have you up and running and make you more productive in no time. With the help of step-by-step explanations of essential concepts and practical examples, you’ll explore automatic tests and TDD best practices and get to grips with the methodologies and tools available in Python for creating effective and robust applications. By the end of this Python book, you will be able to write reliable test suites in Python to ensure the long-term resilience of your application using the range of libraries offered by Python for testing and development.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Section 1: Software Testing and Test-Driven Development
6
Section 2: PyTest for Python Testing
13
Section 3: Testing for the Web
16
About Packt
Testing for the Web: WSGI versus HTTP

In the previous chapter, we saw how to test documentation and implement more advanced testing techniques in our test suites, such as property-based testing.

One of the primary use cases for Python has become web development. Python has many very effective and powerful web development frameworks. The most famous one is surely the Django web framework, but many more of them exist, including the Flask framework, the Pyramid framework, TurboGears2, and more. Each web framework has its own peculiarities and unique features that make it easy to build most of the different kinds of web applications using Python itself, but all of them share the same need of having to verify that the applications you built work properly and are tested. Thus in this chapter, we are going to see how we can test HTTP-based applications on both the client and server side...