>>> Does anyone else feel that unittesting is too much work? Not in general, >>> just the official unittest module for small to medium sized projects? > [snip] >> I actually do a lot of unit testing. I find it both annoying and >> highly necessary and useful. > > +1 QOTW. > > I feel exactly the same way. Writing tests (whether you use unittest, > doctest, py.test or whatever) is always a pain and a time sink. But > writing those tests catches so many bugs that it's worth it for any code > you expect to use more than twice. =)
If test-driven development doesn't appeal, you might prefer Titus Brown's methodology from PyCon '07: """ I don't do test-driven development; I do stupidity-driven testing. When I do something stupid, I write a test to make sure I don't do it again. """ http://ivory.idyll.org/blog/feb-07/stupidity-driven-testing -tkc -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
