[TIP] structure of a testing talk

[Jens Rantil]

Python is used a lot for web development nowadays. How about mentioning
that there are libraries for executing tests by controlling a browser? I'm
thinking about Selenium and thelike. They are very useful for high-level
testing.

Regards,
Jens

On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 11:34 AM, andrea crotti <andrea.crotti.0 at gmail.com>wrote:

> I'm preparing a talk about unit testing in Python, and I'm thinking
> about what to say and in which order..
>
> So far I came up with the following structure of key points, what do
> you think?
> Am I missing something important or anything else that could be useful?
>
> * Python is very dynamic
>
> ** No help from the compiler
>
> ** Very bad errors coming only at runtime
>
>    examples of functions that fail miserably only at runtime
>
> ** We need to test our code even harder
>
> * Functions
>
> ** Pure functions
>
> ** Side effects, and why they are bad
>
> ** Test pure functions (with a simple module)
>
> * Testing
>
> ** Unit testing, integration testing, functional testing
>
> ** TDD and test first development
>
> ** Examples and demo about TDD
>
> * unittest libraries
>
> ** Setup / Teardown
>
> ** Test discovery
>
> ** Coverage
>
> ** Nose + coverage
>
> * Mock library
>
> ** Python dynamic binding and by-hand examples
>
> ** Testing side effect functions
>
> * Conclusions
>
> ** Avoid side effect whenever possible
>
> ** Build your programs bottom-up, composing small functions
>
> ** Before writing the code, think how you could test it
>
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