> The lines between doc tests, blackbox testing, whitebox testing, and
> regression testing is blurry. People may legitimately disagree on
> whether a specific test is documentation, testing the interface,
> testing the implementation, or all three.
>
Wow!!! Ok that clears up a lot. Thank you
On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 09:44:17 pm Tino Dai wrote:
> > The *primary* purpose of doctests are to be executable examples.
> > When you write documentation, including example code is the most
> > natural thing in the world. doctest lets you execute those
> > examples, to ensure that they work. They're ce
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 3:53 AM, Walter Prins wrote:
> You might also have a look at some of the other popular testing frameworks
> e.g. Nose (http://somethingaboutorange.com/mrl/projects/nose/0.11.2/) and
> py.test (http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyTest) Both of these have the
> advantage that the
>
> The *primary* purpose of doctests are to be executable examples. When
> you write documentation, including example code is the most natural
> thing in the world. doctest lets you execute those examples, to ensure
> that they work. They're certainly not meant as an exhaustive test of
> every sin
You might also have a look at some of the other popular testing frameworks
e.g. Nose (http://somethingaboutorange.com/mrl/projects/nose/0.11.2/) and
py.test (http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyTest) Both of these have the
advantage that they're discovery based, so they'll go and sniff out tests
from yo
On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 01:37:42 am Tino Dai wrote:
> I am
> torn between the DocTest and UnitTest. I like the one "fileness" of
> the DocTest, but am concerned
> about the length of my tests being several orders of magnitude bigger
> than the actual code. I
> like the UnitTest having a separate file
Hi All,
In my journey from a hacker to a professional software developer, I
have started to learn
the finer points of Test Drive Development via Django (no questions about
Django though). I am
torn between the DocTest and UnitTest. I like the one "fileness" of the
DocTest, but am concerned
ab
