-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05/09/2011 09:46 PM, Kirby Urner wrote: > Run the module top-level, triggering _test, and do so again and again, > as contingencies and corner cases get tested. Leave a representative > set of tests behind as evidence of your audit. You may write a more > formal unittesting framework later, but there's no guarantee that's > something to release with the module. The _test( ) function serves > as an "on board payload" while the unittest framework stays behind > "near the launch pad". > > The goal is to put the learner in the role of Quality Assurance tester, > at least at first. Eat your own dog food. Keep the code to be tested > and the tester code together, but that doesn't have to mean doctest.
I really like that approach, I think I'll start using it myself! Thanks for imparting your wisdom. And about the Game of Life: I'm starting to pick up a little VBA (eugh it's gross) and plan on implementing (if I can, of course) the Game of Life in an excel spreadsheet! Now that I think about it, I wonder if libreoffice has scripting and what it is... - -- Corey Richardson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJNyJ5wAAoJEAFAbo/KNFvpZYsH/16gHa2rM2hrp47P+g++arQ0 wRf1hSdbCfIZwoKXHKxL2cPgtMqwACZrYt2+eBgnu0aRNZBujXIS76ITd6qekSic Hrj3kx6ZpiE5RRnb1OyXbcMWVCF6nI540t348nCdutr6edytBSlQ45vyKpqS+los Q3QRwvQi0cj+go1xodutktR5pvA16shCpx8CdGcIX8RRTRjTvVi/CkhMO3zHK9qT 06wRuYa3bveR86xnOHyhHgtj4wBtf8ip9bnhZTXEQlAdPOhyvAh8KmEpwlpqq/fj tOAexh1hpwohXBOTZaSjiTF+/JwglP77XgQ8rcmHFkIomwKxG3LO6YHnHcDIxGc= =LhOj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
