[BangPypers] Agile development in Python

Ramdas S ramdas at developeriq.com
Tue Feb 26 04:49:20 CET 2008


Doc Tests are perfect for most occasions. But well written Unit tests are
perhaps the  right way to do Agile programming ( if you go by the book).



On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 8:25 AM, Prashanth Ellina <prashanthellina at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Siddharta,
>
> Thanks for the info. I was leaning towards using doctests to start
> with (the seem less imposing for a testing novice like me). I was
> however unsure about using them until you mentioned them. I will start
> with these and try unitest later.
>
> regards,
> Prashanth
>
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 7:40 AM, Siddharta <siddharta.lists at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi Prashanth,
> >
> >  I do agile development in Python. I use the unittest module for
> testing.
> >  Some prefer doctest. It depends on which style of testing you prefer.
> >  Django has a testing framework around unittest that I use for Django
> >  projects. For end to end testing, I use Selenium with the python
> >  interface. Sometimes I use mechanize when I want to test outside of a
> >  browser. For doing builds, I use my own script. Some people use SCONS,
> >  but I haven't used it yet.
> >
> >  Django testing - http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/testing/
> >  Selenium - http://selenium.openqa.org/
> >  mechanize - http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/mechanize/
> >  SCONS - http://www.scons.org/
> >
> >  --
> >  Siddharta Govindaraj
> >  http://siddhi.blogspot.com
> >
> >
> >  Prashanth Ellina wrote:
> >  > Hi,
> >  >
> >  > I want to learn more about agile development in python. I've done
> some
> >  > reading on the net. However, I would like to meet someone who is
> doing
> >  > agile development in python. Anyone?
> >  >
> >  > Thanks,
> >  > Prashanth
> >  >
> >  >
> >
> >
> >
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