[Chicago] next meeting talk- topic request

[Kumar McMillan]

On 10/25/07, Cosmin Stejerean <cstejerean at gmail.com> wrote:
> I could give a quick overview of py.test
>
> - Cosmin
>

As a core developer on nose [1], I reckon I'd have to meet this
friendly challenge and present an overview on nose, a similar
discovery-based unit test runner for python :)

(or ... steel cage fight?)

Seriously though, 0.10 was just released and nose has stabilized quite
a bit and grown much better plugin support, which is something that
everyone should know about so they can get involved in our little
plugin community!

As for the basics of unit testing, I am hesitant to say I'd cover this
comprehensively (unless there was an overwhelming majority asking for
it) but I can certainly try to give a lightning overview, along with
that vs. functional and integration testing.

(In response to Carl's pycon email: I am half considering a more
"advanced" talk on nose to compliment what may be an intro talk on it
given by the author, Jason Pellerin (from Ann Arbour);  we obviously
need to work out who, what, where, why, etc.)

Anyone else for a py.test / nose face-off?

[1]  http://somethingaboutorange.com/mrl/projects/nose/


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> On 10/25/07, Lukasz Szybalski <szybalski at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I was wondering if anybody would be willing to talk about "unit
> > testing " in python. Maybe go through some examples.  How to create
> > one, how to maintain one, things to consider.  I would be very
> > interested to hear about it.
> >
> > Reportlab would be a nice topic too if anybody is familiar with it.
> >
> >
> > Lucas
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