Art of Unit Testing

[Boudewijn Rempt]

Jesse W wrote:


> I hope, as I said above, that this method will allow me to finish
> various projects I have started and had to abandon because I got
> stuck in binds I could not specifically understand or find out how to
> resolve.  My doubts lie with the thought that it is very difficult to
> figure out what the requirements of a program will be before you
> write the program, and will this method make programming into a
> tiresome, irritating task, even if I can write these bigger programs?
> My question to you all is this:  Do you have any suggestions on
> how to deal with learning to use unit testing in this way, or examples
> of setting up games with this kind of unit testing, or GUI programs?
> Really, any thoughts or comments you might have about this form of
> unit testing, or how to learn to use it, would be very appreciated.
> 

I've found little value in writing unittests for GUI apps (and that 
includes games), but lots of use for unittests in the underlying libraries. 
I use unittests even when writing examples for my PyQt book, and I've 
included a chapter on unit testing, which Stephen Figgins rather liked, 
even in the draft form 
(http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2001/07/05/pythonnews.html).

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