Learning Python Testing

Automated testing is the best way to increase efficiency and decrease the

defects of software testing. It takes away much of the effort on your part so

that you can find bugs early and easily. The Python unit testing framework

makes it easy to write efficient automated test cases in Python. Applications

involving many paradigms and styles can be very complicated to test, but with

the right tools, testing becomes the simplest part of the development process.

This book starts with a short introduction to testing, and then introduces the

doctest tool, both in terms of practicalities and how it fits into the testing

environment. From there, the discussion proceeds to unittest.mock and mock

objects, and to unittest. Next, Nose is introduced and discussed. Later on,

focus turns from the tools themselves toward best practices and disciplines of

testing. Finally, the integration of testing with existing build processes and

toolchains is covered. By the end of this book, you will know how to use

automated testing quickly and easily and in a way that helps catch bugs early

and fix them.