[TIP] structure of a testing talk

[Gabriel Pugliese]

If you talking to developers, tell them how can they improve Python
testing...we could have some record testing that I wish it was built, like
vcr.py [1] (Just a proof-of-concept from Ruby)

[1] https://github.com/kevin1024/vcrpy

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On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Hugo Lopes Tavares <hltbra at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey Andrea,
>
> I don't see you mentioning tests as regression tests. It is very
> important. You can use as an example someone new coming to the team.
> That people is not used to the codebase, and without tests, he can
> break stuff without even noticing.
>
> And tests as documentation is very worth mentioning too, because it is
> very useful to see how code works reading tests. You can see the
> corner cases and lots of scenarios you may even not know about.
>
> Congratz for the talk.
>
> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 11:33 AM, andrea crotti
> <andrea.crotti.0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 2012/10/2 Jonathan Hartley <tartley at tartley.com>:
> >> On 02/10/2012 14:16, Jonathan Hartley wrote:
> >>
> >> I think I answered my own question: I was mentally comparing the
> situation
> >> *with* tests for Python versus for other languages. I should have been
> >> comparing the situations *without* tests. An alien mindset. Thanks for
> being
> >> my sounding-board.
> >>
> >
> >
> > Yes that's the point..  In other languages you're in serious trouble
> > if you don't test properly, in Python you're simply doomed ;)
> >
> > But on the other hand we have things like mock that more static
> > languages don't have, so there are pros and cons..
> >
> > Another thing which people often say is "well it's just a small script
> > I don't need tests", and then 3 months later is 5000 lines of
> > monstruosity used in production.
> >
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