9: Harry Percival : Testing Web Apps with Python, Selenium, Django
Test & Code in Python - Un pódcast de Brian Okken
Categorías:
- Intro to Harry Percival, his background and story of how he got into TDD and ended up writing a book
- Comparing 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 isolation
django and isolated unit tests
unit tests vs integration tests
Testing done by the development team without an external QA
Double loop TDD: Functional test first, then unit tests
Spikes: investigations without tests
Harry'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...
Links
- Test-Driven Development with Python
- Obey the Testing Goat - Harry's site dedicated to the book and related posts.
- Python Testing with unittest, nose, pytest
- Gary Bernhardt's talk, Boundaries talk including a discussion of "Functional Core, Imperative Shell".
- Video of Boundaries talk on youtube
