Listen "9: Harry Percival : Testing Web Apps with Python, Selenium, Django"
Episode Synopsis
Intro to Harry Percival, his background and story of how he got into TDD and ended up writing a bookComparing using unittest and pytest with applicability to testing django projects. Functional end to end testing with selenium.The django test client for middle level tests.test isolationdjango and isolated unit testsunit tests vs integration testsTesting done by the development team without an external QADouble loop TDD: Functional test first, then unit testsSpikes: investigations without testsHarry's experience with having a freely available web version of a book that is also intended to be sold.Update: Comment from Harry Percival on 19-Jan-2014 I might have been a bit down on unit tests vs functional tests in that "unit tests never fail comment". Not true at all, particularly as we've just been thru upgrading django on our core system, and the unit tests really saved our bacon on that one...LinksTest-Driven Development with PythonObey the Testing Goat - Harry's site dedicated to the book and related posts.Python Testing with unittest, nose, pytestGary Bernhardt's talk, Boundaries talk including a discussion of "Functional Core, Imperative Shell".Video of Boundaries talk on youtube
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