Doc Tests are perfect for most occasions. But well written Unit tests are perhaps the right way to do Agile programming ( if you go by the book).<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 8:25 AM, Prashanth Ellina <<a href="mailto:prashanthellina@gmail.com">prashanthellina@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi Siddharta,<br>
<br>
Thanks for the info. I was leaning towards using doctests to start<br>
with (the seem less imposing for a testing novice like me). I was<br>
however unsure about using them until you mentioned them. I will start<br>
with these and try unitest later.<br>
<br>
regards,<br>
Prashanth<br>
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On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 7:40 AM, Siddharta <<a href="mailto:siddharta.lists@gmail.com">siddharta.lists@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hi Prashanth,<br>
><br>
> I do agile development in Python. I use the unittest module for testing.<br>
> Some prefer doctest. It depends on which style of testing you prefer.<br>
> Django has a testing framework around unittest that I use for Django<br>
> projects. For end to end testing, I use Selenium with the python<br>
> interface. Sometimes I use mechanize when I want to test outside of a<br>
> browser. For doing builds, I use my own script. Some people use SCONS,<br>
> but I haven't used it yet.<br>
><br>
> Django testing - <a href="http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/testing/" target="_blank">http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/testing/</a><br>
> Selenium - <a href="http://selenium.openqa.org/" target="_blank">http://selenium.openqa.org/</a><br>
> mechanize - <a href="http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/mechanize/" target="_blank">http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/mechanize/</a><br>
> SCONS - <a href="http://www.scons.org/" target="_blank">http://www.scons.org/</a><br>
><br>
> --<br>
> Siddharta Govindaraj<br>
> <a href="http://siddhi.blogspot.com" target="_blank">http://siddhi.blogspot.com</a><br>
><br>
><br>
> Prashanth Ellina wrote:<br>
> > Hi,<br>
> ><br>
> > I want to learn more about agile development in python. I've done some<br>
> > reading on the net. However, I would like to meet someone who is doing<br>
> > agile development in python. Anyone?<br>
> ><br>
> > Thanks,<br>
> > Prashanth<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
><br>
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