<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Hi, </span><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> I've been working on an open source project to auto-generate unit tests for web apps based on traces collected from the web server and static code analysis, once you verify the behavior in the trace is correct. I've got an alpha version online at </span><a href="http://www.splintera.com/" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(102,17,204);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">www.splintera.com</a><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">, and the source is at </span><a href="https://github.com/splintera/python-django-client" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(102,17,204);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">https://github.com/splintera/python-django-client</a><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">. I'd love to get some feedback from the community and extend it to work with other languages as well. </span><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> I wrote it originally because I was sick of coming into companies where I had to inherit tens of thousands of lines of code without any tests, and never had time to write them manually - being careful to mock out dependencies, specify the correct inputs and outputs, and figure out which path it was taking through the code. </span><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> I'd like to get some sense of: </span><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- how difficult/tedious is writing unit tests, and why? </span><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- do you wish you had better code coverage? </span><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- how important is testing to you? </span><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">thanks, </span><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">imran </span><br>
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