[TIP] Python Testing book review

[C. Titus Brown]

On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 02:07:59PM -0500, Jesse Noller wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 1:55 PM, C. Titus Brown <ctb at msu.edu> wrote:
> 
> >> However, in my experience Packt's books tend to suffer from some
> >> pretty bad editing / checking. All it takes is a good reviewer to *run
> >> the code* in the book. All of their books are feeling rushed, and I
> >> feel bad for the authors, since it reflects on them.
> >
> > All it takes is a *good author* to run all the code in the book, first ;).
> >
> > I wrote some hacky little doctest-style code to make sure that the
> > basic examples in my book worked. ?Highly recommended approach.
> 
> And iPython + doctest mode is normally how I did testing of code when
> tech reviewing :)
> 
> but; that's beside the point - you wrote a book? Was it on goatherding?

Grig, Jason Huggins, and I wrote an O'Reilly e-book, intro to testing with
twill & Selenium:

  http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Testing-Applications-twill-Selenium/dp/B001O7HEPW

Clearly it has been wildly successful :)

cheers,
--titus
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C. Titus Brown, ctb at msu.edu