Dear Terri

In addition I can recommend the following resource:

pythontesting.net has a podcast series on testing and more, check out the new 
book on pytest by the site maintainer Brian Okken

Regards
Olav



Olav
> 14 juli 2017 kl. 21:36 skrev Ashwin Srinath <[email protected]>:
> 
> If you're using Python, numpy.testing has the tools you'll need:
> 
> https://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/reference/routines.testing.html
> 
> There's also pandas.testing for testing code that uses Pandas.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ashwin
> 
>> On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 3:27 PM, Terri Yu <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>> 
>> Are there any resources that explain how to write unit tests for scientific
>> software?  I'm writing some software that processes audio signals and there
>> are many parameters.  I'm wondering what's the best way to test floating
>> point numeric results.
>> 
>> Do I need to test every single parameter?  How can I verify accuracy of
>> numeric results... use a different language / library?  I would like to do a
>> good job of testing, but I also don't want to write a bunch of semi-useless
>> tests that take a long time to run.
>> 
>> I would appreciate any thoughts you have.
>> 
>> Thank you,
>> 
>> Terri
>> 
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