Clean Code in Python

Design principles and unit testing

In this section, are first going to take a look at unit testing from a conceptual point of view. We will revisit some of the software engineering principles we discussed in the previous to get an idea of how this is related to clean code.

After that, we will discuss in more detail how to put these concepts into practice (at the code level), and what frameworks and tools we can make use of.

First we quickly define what unit testing is about. Unit tests are parts of the code in charge of validating other parts of the code. Normally, anyone would be tempted to say that unit tests, validate the "core" of the application, but such definition regards unit tests to a secondary place, which is not the way they are ...