Turnquist G.L. - Python Testing Cookbook [2011, PDF, ENG]

•Chapter 1: Using Unittest To Develop Basic Tests
◦Introduction
◦Asserting the basics
◦Setting up and tearing down a test harness
◦Running test cases from the command line with increased verbosity
◦Running a subset of test case methods
◦Chaining together a suite of tests
◦Defining test suites inside the test module
◦Retooling old test code to run inside unittest
◦Breaking down obscure tests into simple ones
◦Testing the edges
◦Testing corner cases by iteration

•Chapter 2: Running Automated Test Suites with Nose
◦Introduction
◦Getting nosy with testing
◦Embedding nose inside Python
◦Writing a nose extension to pick tests based on regular expressions
◦Writing a nose extension to generate a CSV report
◦Writing a project-level script that lets you run different test suites

•Chapter 3: Creating Testable Documentation with doctest
◦Introduction
◦Documenting the basics
◦Catching stack traces
◦Running doctests from the command line
◦Coding a test harness for doctest
◦Filtering out test noise
◦Printing out all your documentation including a status report
◦Testing the edges
◦Testing corner cases by iteration
◦Getting nosy with doctest
◦Updating the project-level script to run this chapter's doctests

•Chapter 4: Testing Customer Stories with Behavior Driven Development
◦Introduction
◦Naming tests that sound like sentences and stories
◦Testing separate doctest documents
◦Writing a testable story with doctest
◦Writing a testable novel with doctest
◦Writing a testable story with Voidspace
◦Mock and nose
◦Writing a testable story with mockito and nose
◦Writing a testable story with Lettuce
◦Using Should DSL to write succinct assertions with Lettuce
◦Updating the project-level script to run this chapter's BDD tests

•Chapter 5: High Level Customer Scenarios with Acceptance Testing
◦Introduction
◦Installing Pyccuracy
◦Testing the basics with Pyccuracy
◦Using Pyccuracy to verify web app security
◦Installing the Robot Framework
◦Creating a data-driven test suite with Robot
◦Writing a testable story with Robot
◦Tagging Robot tests and running a subset
◦Testing web basics with Robot
◦Using Robot to verify web app security
◦Creating a project-level script to verify this chapter's acceptance tests

•Chapter 6: Integrating Automated Tests with Continuous Integration
◦Introduction
◦Generating a continuous integration report for Jenkins using NoseXUnit
◦Configuring Jenkins to run Python tests upon commit
◦Configuring Jenkins to run Python tests when scheduled
◦Generating a CI report for TeamCity using teamcity-nose
◦Configuring TeamCity to run Python tests upon commit
◦Configuring TeamCity to run Python tests when scheduled

•Chapter 7: Measuring your Success with Test Coverage
◦Introduction
◦Building a network management application
◦Installing and running coverage on your test suite
◦Generating an HTML report using coverage
◦Generating an XML report using coverage
◦Getting nosy with coverage
◦Filtering out test noise from coverage
◦Letting Jenkins get nosy with coverage
◦Updating the project-level script to provide coverage reports

•Chapter 8: Smoke/Load Testing—Testing Major Parts
◦Introduction
◦Defining a subset of test cases using import statements
◦Leaving out integration tests
◦Targeting end-to-end scenarios
◦Targeting the test server
◦Coding a data simulator
◦Recording and playing back live data in real time
◦Recording and playing back live data as fast as possible
◦Automating your management demo

•Chapter 9: Good Test Habits for New and Legacy Systems
◦Introduction
◦Something is better than nothing
◦Coverage isn't everything
◦Be willing to invest in test fixtures
◦If you aren't convinced on the value of testing, your team won't be either
◦Harvesting metrics
◦Capturing a bug in an automated test
◦Separating algorithms from concurrency
◦Pause to refactor when test suite takes too long to run
◦Cash in on your confidence
◦Be willing to throw away an entire day of changes
◦Instead of shooting for 100 percent coverage, try to have a steady growth
◦Randomly breaking your app can lead to better code

•Index