Python Testing Cookbook

Python Testing Cookbook
 Python Testing Cookbook
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 1. Using Unittest To Develop Basic Tests
 Introduction
 Asserting the basics
 Getting ready
 How to do it ... 
 How it works ... 
 There's more ... AssertEquals is preferred over assertTrue and assertFalseself.fail([msg]) can usually be rewritten with assertions
 Our version of Python can impact our options
 Setting up and tearing down a test harness
 How to do it ... 
 How it works ... 
 Running test cases from the command line with increased verbosity
 How to do it ... 
 How it works ... 
 There's more ... 
 Running a subset of test case methods
 How to do it ... 
 How it works ... 
 Chaining together a suite of tests
 How to do it ... 
 How it works ... 
 There's more ... 
 Name of the test case should be significant. Defining test suites inside the test moduleHow to do it ... 
 How it works ... 
 There's more ... 
 Test suite methods must be outside of the test class
 Why have different suites?
 optparse is being phased out and replaced by argparse
 Retooling old test code to run inside unittest
 How to do it ... 
 How it works ... 
 There's more ... 
 Where are the bugs?
 FunctionTestCase is a temporary measure
 Breaking down obscure tests into simple ones
 How to do it ... 
 How it works ... 
 There's more ... 
 Where is the bug?
 What is the right size for a test method?
 Unittests versus integration tests. Testing the edgesHow to do it ... 
 How it works ... 
 There's more ... 
 Identifying the edges is important
 Testing for unexpected conditions
 Testing corner cases by iteration
 How to do it ... 
 How it works ... 
 There's more ... 
 Does this defy the recipe-Breaking down obscure tests into simple ones?
 How does this compare with the recipe-Testing the edges?
 See also
 2. Running Automated Test Suites with Nose
 Introduction
 Getting nosy with testing
 How to do it ... 
 How it works ... 
 There's more ... 
 Nose is extensible
 Nose is embeddable
 See also
 Embedding nose inside Python
 How to do it ... How it works ... There's more
 Writing a nose extension to pick tests based on regular expressions
 Getting ready
 How to do it ... 
 How it works ... 
 There's more ... 
 Writing a nose extension to generate a CSV report
 Getting ready
 How to do it ... 
 How it works ... 
 There's more ... 
 Writing a project-level script that lets you run different test suites
 How to do it ... 
 How it works ... 
 There's more
 Why use getopt instead of optparse?
 3. Creating Testable Documentation with doctest
 Introduction
 Documenting the basics
 How to do it ... 
 How it works ... 
 There's more ... 
 Catching stack traces.