[Tutor] Where to start with Unit Testing

[David Hutto]

On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Che M <pine508 at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>> Do any of you have any feedback, strategies and best practices
>> related to unit testing within Python. This is a relatively new topic
>> for me. I was thinking of starting with reading the documentation
>> associate with the unittest module.
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> The idea of unit testing/test driven development has remained
> foreign to me throughout my time trying to learn Python--by choice.
> I want to make desktop GUI applications and I don't use MVC, so
> the idea of writing tests strikes me as far more work--and a major
> delayer of getting to an application that actually does something--
> than simply using the software myself and noting problems.  It
> sounds like TDD is probably the most proper way to go about things,
> but, in the interest of getting something out of Python to warrant the
> time I've put into it, I favor a "good enough" approach for now.

Writers just call this a rough draft. Perfection is in the revisions
that come after a little thought.

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