[TIP] Python Testing book review

[Grig Gheorghiu]

I think you'll find broken code with typos in most technical books. I personally don't tend to judge a book by that alone. I thought the Python Testing book was very well organized and managed to explain some fairly difficult concepts such as mock testing in simple language, appropriate for a beginner's guide. Also, there aren't that many other Python books out there (none that I know of in fact) that cover unittest, doctest, nose and twill.

My impression is that there's a lot of very good info for someone at a beginner or even intermediate level in testing in general and testing-in-Python in particular. The code examples show how to approach testing for your project, and even if they're not 100 percent correct, they still serve as a good starting point.

Full disclosure: I know the author pretty well, he used to be part of the SoCal Piggies group.

Grig

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Driscoll <mike at pythonlibrary.org>
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 11:27:02 
To: <testing-in-python at lists.idyll.org>
Subject: [TIP] Python Testing book review

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