[TIP] Python Testing book review

[Olemis Lang]

On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 1:55 PM, C. Titus Brown <ctb at msu.edu> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 01:52:19PM -0500, Jesse Noller wrote:
>> On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Grig Gheorghiu <grig.gheorghiu at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > 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.
>>
>> 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.
>

IMO it's a (50 | 50 ) responsibility for (author | reviewer) ...
especially for a book about testing in Python. Talking about doctest
=> should eat your own dog's food ...

;o)

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Olemis.

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