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)<div><br><div>[1] <a href="https://github.com/kevin1024/vcrpy" target="_blank">https://github.com/kevin1024/vcrpy</a></div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Hugo Lopes Tavares <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hltbra@gmail.com" target="_blank">hltbra@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hey Andrea,<br>
<br>
I don't see you mentioning tests as regression tests. It is very<br>
important. You can use as an example someone new coming to the team.<br>
That people is not used to the codebase, and without tests, he can<br>
break stuff without even noticing.<br>
<br>
And tests as documentation is very worth mentioning too, because it is<br>
very useful to see how code works reading tests. You can see the<br>
corner cases and lots of scenarios you may even not know about.<br>
<br>
Congratz for the talk.<br>
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On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 11:33 AM, andrea crotti<br>
<<a href="mailto:andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com" target="_blank">andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> 2012/10/2 Jonathan Hartley <<a href="mailto:tartley@tartley.com" target="_blank">tartley@tartley.com</a>>:<br>
>> On 02/10/2012 14:16, Jonathan Hartley wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> I think I answered my own question: I was mentally comparing the situation<br>
>> *with* tests for Python versus for other languages. I should have been<br>
>> comparing the situations *without* tests. An alien mindset. Thanks for being<br>
>> my sounding-board.<br>
>><br>
><br>
><br>
> Yes that's the point.. In other languages you're in serious trouble<br>
> if you don't test properly, in Python you're simply doomed ;)<br>
><br>
> But on the other hand we have things like mock that more static<br>
> languages don't have, so there are pros and cons..<br>
><br>
> Another thing which people often say is "well it's just a small script<br>
> I don't need tests", and then 3 months later is 5000 lines of<br>
> monstruosity used in production.<br>
><br>
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