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Python: Master the Art of Design Patterns
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Python: Master the Art of Design Patterns

by Dusty Phillips, Chetan Giridhar, Sakis Kasampalis
September 2016
Intermediate to advanced
775 pages
18h 22m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 12. Testing Object-oriented Programs

Skilled Python programmers agree that testing is one of the most important aspects of software development. Even though this chapter is placed near the end of the book, it is not an afterthought; everything we have studied so far will help us when writing tests. We'll be studying:

  • The importance of unit testing and test-driven development
  • The standard unittest module
  • The py.test automated testing suite
  • The mock module
  • Code coverage
  • Cross-platform testing with tox

Why test?

A large collection of programmers already know how important it is to test their code. If you're among them, feel free to skim this section. You'll find the next section—where we actually see how to do the tests in Python—much more scintillating. ...

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