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Gabriel Falcão
February 06, 2012
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Unit testing in python
motivation, techniques and tools
Gabriel Falcão
February 06, 2012
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Transcript
Unit testing motivation, techniques and tools
Past •Tests were written after the code was “ready” •Mocks,
Stubs, are also an old concept: isolate modules •Microsoft, Sun and other huge software companies were using since... ever
Hey wait... Microsoft Testing after written? +
coincidence?
Present •Kent Back changed the world •Google, Facebook, [your badass
company here] doing •Mocks, Stubs, now are less heavily used
Why is it cool ? •Automagic refactoring •Modules are isolated
•Code is cleaner •Modules are isolated •No more fear when changing code that is too important •They run just so fast •White box
Wait.... white box?!
White box •Comes from hacking/security vocabulary •The developer knows the
codebase in depth •Test relies on internal calls
Test-driven development How to start it
Baby steps
Baby steps •Don’t write the whole thing at once •The
next step will come naturally •Small units of code •The name is cute
The Mantra Red (1) Green (2) Refactor (3)
... in other words
YAGNI YOU AIN’T GONNA NEED IT ...at least for now.
YAGNI
YAGNI Focus on what you need to achieve now don’t
try to predict the future
Python Past/present/future?
Python - Past •unittest and unittest2 •class-based •camel case •overcomplicated
•the community wasn’t really into it •... so we didn’t have many libraries BORING...
Python - Past
None
Python - Present •Nose — •DSLs are growing and becoming
more popular •it is becoming fun to write tests •so that we’ll want to write more and more ROBUST CODE
Python - Present •Easier to write •conventions instead of classes
•libraries leveraging mocks and stubs
Old-school mocking and asserting
But now we are hipsters
and cool libraries does the hard job
What about stubs? •They’re just like mocks •But doesn’t have
behavior (no methods, just info)
What about stubs?
Future?!
Future?!
Future?!
Future?!
Django let’s have some fun
How it is •The default test support uses unittest2 •or
doctests •don’t separate between unit, functional, etc •which leverages having very slow suites •doesn’t provide support for isolation •kinda focused on black box
Unclebob •per app tests (unit, functional, integration) •isolate the database
so it fails if your test tries to use it •discover tests automagically
Unclebob http://bit.ly/woTgXq
testing huge views
None
None
the idea is simple
move logic into objects, testing each unit of logic separately
links •http://readthedocs.org/docs/nose/en/latest/ •http://github.com/gabrielfalcao/sure •http://github.com/gabrielfalcao/unclebob