Python and database unittests

[Marco Bizzarri]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Simon Brunning
<simon at brunningonline.net> wrote:
> 2008/8/27 Marco Bizzarri <marco.bizzarri at gmail.com>:
>> I strongly disagree on using mocks for a database; checking sequences
>> of SQL statement is fragile, painful, and leads you to frustration
>> when the actual SQL and the generated SQL do not match.
>
> Clearly you need integration tests as well as unit tests, but the unit
> tests ought to isolate the code under test, so stubbing out external
> dependencies is the norm.


I agree with you about stubbing external dependencies; I'm just
suggesting to stub the stuff a little further, so that you're not
exposed to actual SQL code.



Regards
Marco


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