[py-svn] r65325 - py/extradoc/talk/ep2009

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Author: hpk
Date: Wed May 20 15:14:04 2009
New Revision: 65325

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   py/extradoc/talk/ep2009/tutorial-advanced.txt
      - copied, changed from r63218, py/extradoc/talk/pycon-us-2009/proposal-pytest-advanced.txt
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ep tutorial talks as submitted


Copied: py/extradoc/talk/ep2009/tutorial-advanced.txt (from r63218, py/extradoc/talk/pycon-us-2009/proposal-pytest-advanced.txt)
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--- py/extradoc/talk/pycon-us-2009/proposal-pytest-advanced.txt	(original)
+++ py/extradoc/talk/ep2009/tutorial-advanced.txt	Wed May 20 15:14:04 2009
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-Title: py.test - cross-platform and distributed testing 
-Presenter: Holger Krekel <holger at merlinux.eu>, Brian <brian at dorseys.org>
+Title: rapid testing with py.test 
+Presenter: Holger Krekel <holger at merlinux.eu>
 Tutorial format: interactive lecture 
-Recording: I give permission to record and publish my PyCon tutorial for free distribution. 
 Intended Audience: Python programmers 
-Maximum number of students: maybe 30 
+Maximum number of students: 30 
 Perequisites/knowledge: good knowledge of python programming, basic familiarity with automated testing
-Requirements: Attendees are welcome to bring their laptops with Python installed (version 2.4 or higher).
-Notes to reviewer: visting the beginner-oriented tutorial "rapid testing with minimal effort" is recommended, but not required. 
+Requirements: Attendees should bring their laptops with Python installed (version 2.4 or higher).
 
 Tutorial Summary: 
 
-Want to know more about advanced automated testing with Python? 
-Use a tool that allows you to ad-hoc distribute tests to multiple 
-CPUs for speed and to multiple platforms for compatibility checks? 
-With tons of debugging help in failure situations? 
-
-This tutorial provides in-depth information on advanced usages
-of the popular py.test tool.  We highlight its current feature set 
-including using and writing extensions for generating HTML pages, 
-testing Javascript or ReST documents.  We showcase and discuss ways 
-of distributing tests across CPUs and platforms and will leave
-time to discuss and tackle specific scenarios brought up 
-during the session.
+Want to dive deeper into automated testing with Python?  
+Want to know how to rapidly write all kinds of tests 
+and organise your test suite with minimal boilerplate?  
+Want to use a tool that allows you to ad-hoc 
+distribute tests to multiple machines and platforms? 
+
+This tutorial provides in-depth information about writing 
+tests in Python and running them with py.test. 
+We walk through basic consecutive examples, the current 
+feature set and exercise ways to setup and configure 
+custom test runs.  In the second part we distribute 
+tests to multiple CPUs and platforms and discuss 
+the basics of extension mechanism. 
+
+The tutorial format will be an interactive lecture with 
+some exercises and plenty of time for questions. Please
+bring your laptop and have Python installed and working. 
 
-The tutorial format will be an interactive lecture with plenty
-of time for questions. 
+Draft Outline: 
 
-Outline for review:
+Intro: quick round on backgrounds of participants and talker 
 
-Terminology/Overview (20 minutes) 
+Terminology/Overview  (20 minutes) 
 - developer and "customer" tests 
 - small/medium/big tests aka unit/functional/integration 
 - acceptance tests 
 - benefits of automated testing 
-- existing python testing tools
 
-Walkthrough py.test basic features (30 minutes)
-- example of test module 
-- working with failures, tracebacks 
-- generative tests
-- skipping chunks within doctests 
-- looponfailing: run large test set until all tests pass 
-
-Using extensions (40 minutes)
-- integrate collection/run of traditional unit-tests
-- run functions in their own tempdir 
-- testing ReST documents
-- running Javascript tests
-- running Prolog tests 
-- html reporting for nightly runs 
+Walkthrough Python test functions (60 minutes)
+- installing, basic usage of py.test 
+- test functions 
+- test classes
+- interactive debugging and pdb introspection 
+- using setup state (fixtures) in your tests 
+- adding a command line option for test setup 
+- parametrizing tests with multiple values 
+- looponfailing: run test set until all tests pass 
 
-Break 
+* break * 
 
-Writing extensions (30 minutes)
-- overview on extensibility 
-- per-project hooks for customization
-- conftest.py mechanism 
-- global hooks for plugins 
-- event system for custom reporting 
-- test collection hooks 
-- test running hooks 
-- writing cross-project plugins 
+distributing tests (30 minutes) 
 
-Distributed testing (45 minutes) 
-- motivation/vision
 - run your tests on multiple CPUs/multicore 
 - running tests on multiple machines at once 
 - running tests on windows, driven by Unix 
 - do's and dont's for cross-process testing 
 
+testing extensions (20 minutes)
+- traditional unit tests 
+- doctests 
+- ReST documents
+- Javascript tests
+
+* break * 
+
+Writing extensions (30 minutes)
+- hook mechanism 
+- local and global plugins 
+- test collection hooks + example 
+- test running hooks + example 
+
 Buffer, Q&A (15 minutes)