Re: [Tutor] Getting started in testing

2016-05-24 Thread Ben Finney
Terry Carroll writes: > Thanks to Alan, Danny, Albert-Jan and Ben for their suggestions. I've > now gotten my feet wet in unittest and have gone from not quite > knowing where to start to making substantial progress, with a small > suite of tests up and running. Great start! Do keep in mind tha

Re: [Tutor] Getting started in testing

2016-05-24 Thread Terry Carroll
Thanks to Alan, Danny, Albert-Jan and Ben for their suggestions. I've now gotten my feet wet in unittest and have gone from not quite knowing where to start to making substantial progress, with a small suite of tests up and running. ___ Tutor maillist

Re: [Tutor] Getting started in testing

2016-05-21 Thread Ben Finney
Terry Carroll writes: > Is anyone aware of any good tutorials on testing one's Python code? > > Any resources would be helpful. I am aware of the docs on unittest, > but I'm looking for a more tutorial approach. The book Dive Into Python (available both for Python 2 and Python 3) http://www.dive

Re: [Tutor] Getting started in testing

2016-05-21 Thread Albert-Jan Roskam
(sorry for top-posting) I liked https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/python-testing-beginners-guide though perhaps it was a bit too basic. It covers forest, unit test, nose. > Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 12:34:27 -0700 > From: carr...@tjc.com > To: tutor@python.org > Subject: [Tutor] Get

Re: [Tutor] Getting started in testing

2016-05-19 Thread Danny Yoo
On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 12:34 PM, Terry Carroll wrote: > Is anyone aware of any good tutorials on testing one's Python code? > > These days, I'm a hobby programmer, writing little things just for my own > use, and don't really sweat testing much. But I do have one niche > open-source project where

Re: [Tutor] Getting started in testing

2016-05-19 Thread Alan Gauld via Tutor
On 19/05/16 20:34, Terry Carroll wrote: > Is anyone aware of any good tutorials on testing one's Python code? I'm not a big fan of video tutorials but I recently had to teach myself Junit testing (and mockito) in Java and I found that Youtube videos really helped. I know there are similar videos o