[Tutor] Getting started in testing

[Ben Finney]

Terry Carroll <carroll at tjc.com> writes:

> Is anyone aware of any good tutorials on testing one's Python code?
>
> Any resources would be helpful. I am aware of the docs on unittest,
> but I'm looking for a more tutorial approach.

The book Dive Into Python (available both for Python 2 and Python 3)
<URL:http://www.diveintopython.net/> has a good “dive in”, tutorial
style, to unit testing a complete program.

This guide has good “dos and don'ts” for testing while you code
<URL:http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/writing/tests/>.

Test behaviour of the whole program, too, with behavioural tests
<URL:https://semaphoreci.com/community/tutorials/getting-started-with-behavior-testing-in-python-with-behave>.

Automate all of this by writing build scripts which run *all* the tests
with a single command. That's something you should already have in
place, but Fabric is a place to start, or you may be more comfortable
with Make.

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Ben Finney