Does anyone teach any unittest or test driven development to high school (or other) students? I'm looking for a quick reference or "cheat sheet" for python's unittest that I found around the internet once and never bookmarked. I may be imagining it but I remember it being great. If anyone knows the one that I think I saw one time or has a great one they wouldn't mind sharing I'd be very thankful! If not...perhaps it is my destiny to create one. -J. Zachary Miller
On 02/23/2011 11:05 PM, Zac Miller wrote:
Does anyone teach any unittest or test driven development to high school (or other) students? I'm looking for a quick reference or "cheat sheet" for python's unittest that I found around the internet once and never bookmarked. I may be imagining it but I remember it being great. If anyone knows the one that I think I saw one time or has a great one they wouldn't mind sharing I'd be very thankful! If not...perhaps it is my destiny to create one.
I found https://portal.g-node.org/python-summerschool-2009/_media/cheat_sheets.pdf As a student, I wish we covered testing in class. It's a very useful skill! -- Corey Richardson
I'm teaching it as a part of O'Reilly School of Technology's certificate program in Python 3. Steve Holden is the curriculum author. Thanks for asking this question. Corey's link looks useful, although Chrome is anxious about it having security problems. Kirby On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 8:05 PM, Zac Miller <zmiller@gsc.edu> wrote:
Does anyone teach any unittest or test driven development to high school (or other) students? I'm looking for a quick reference or "cheat sheet" for python's unittest that I found around the internet once and never bookmarked. I may be imagining it but I remember it being great. If anyone knows the one that I think I saw one time or has a great one they wouldn't mind sharing I'd be very thankful! If not...perhaps it is my destiny to create one.
-J. Zachary Miller
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In my opinion, the unittest framework is way too cumbersome for an introductory course. Doctests are simple and self-explanatory. Students should get in the habit of writing a doctest for every function they write, even before the function itself is written. The main limitation of doctest is that it doesn't preserve values or maintain a set order when testing a bunch of functions. That can be fixed, however, by providing your own framework - a test function that calls the other functions in whatever order you want. The framework test is then just another doctest in the test function itself. This is a simple extension of what the students already know. -- ************************************************************ * * David MacQuigg, PhD email: macquigg at ece.arizona.edu * * * Research Associate phone: USA 520-721-4583 * * * * ECE Department, University of Arizona * * * * 9320 East Mikelyn Lane * * * * http://purl.net/macquigg Tucson, Arizona 85710 * ************************************************************ * On 2/23/11 9:05 PM, Zac Miller wrote:
Does anyone teach any unittest or test driven development to high school (or other) students? I'm looking for a quick reference or "cheat sheet" for python's unittest that I found around the internet once and never bookmarked. I may be imagining it but I remember it being great. If anyone knows the one that I think I saw one time or has a great one they wouldn't mind sharing I'd be very thankful! If not...perhaps it is my destiny to create one.
-J. Zachary Miller
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