Class Outline: Testing Tools in Python

Introduction

• Why test?
• What to test?
• Using testing to boost maintainability of code.

Setting up a project

• Source control management with Subversion.
• A brief introduction to using Trac for project documentation and ticket management.
• Packaging with distutils
• Packaging with setuptools
• Registering your project with the Python Cheeseshop
• What else is out there? (distributed vs svn, roundup, ...)

Unit testing

• How to think about unit testing
• Using nose to run unit tests
• doctest-style unit tests
• What else is out there? (unittest, py.test, testosterone...)

Functional Web testing with twill

• Writing twill scripts
• Running twill scripts
• Using scotch to record actions
• Using wsgi_intercept to avoid network sockets
• What else is out there? (zope.testbrowser, mechanize, mechanoid)

Using code coverage in conjunction with unit/functional testing

• Basic code coverage with figleaf
• Monitoring code coverage in remote servers
• Combining figleaf code coverage analyses
• What else is out there (coverage)

Acceptance testing with FitNesse/PyFit

• How FitNesse works
• Writing fixtures
• Running Python fixtures

Web application testing with Selenium

• How Selenium works
• Writing and recording Selenium tests
• Scripting Selenium tests remotely with SeleniumRC
• What else is out there? (Sahi, Watir)

Continuous integration with buildbot

• Introduction to buildbot
• Discussion of concepts, demonstration.
• Integrating tests into buildbot.
• GUI testing in buildbot.
• Using pybots to test your open source project

Conclusion

• Why test, revisited
• Maintainability and testing