[TIP] TDD and automatic code generation

[Jim Fulton]

On Sep 3, 2007, at 3:50 AM, Andreas Dotzler wrote:

> Hi,
> This is about using Zope3 interfaces (or schemas) and doctest to  
> develop in
> TDD fashion. I very much liked the article "Zope3 in 30 Minutes
> http://zissue.berlios.de/z3/Zope3In30Minutes.html
> which is specific about developing a zope3 application, however the  
> principle
> should hold for any python application.
>
> So the steps are:
> 1. write the interface IClassName.py
> 2. write the doctest test_ClassName.py
> 3. implement the class ClassName.py and check if it passes the doctest

...

>
> Does anyone know a concept, tool, script that does approximately  
> what I
> suggest ?

No.

> Any comment or remark highly appreciated.

Generation of test skeletons from interface declarations seems like a  
reasonable idea, although I'm not at all sure it's worth the bother.

I don't usage documentation (as opposed to reference documentation)  
can be usefully generated from interfaces.

Jim

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