Re: [Pypentago-devel] Code styleguide

[Hardik M. <har...@gm...>]

Hi guys,

Unit tests are actually meant to test a small, independent component. You
should in no case write unit tests for a huge software project (these tests
are called functional tests ) but divide that project into small independent
(this is more important) components and test the behavior of those
components.

Apart from providing the safety-net while refactoring,  writing first the
unit tests and then developing the corresponding component improves the
design of your project because you automatically modularize your project.

Anyway, this is just my opinion. If we can refactor the code without unit
tests, it would be good to avoid the overhead.


regards,
Hardik





On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 6:59 PM, J. Kovacs <ko...@fr...> wrote:

> I can see both sides of it.
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> Unit testing is good and would be very professional.  Plus it would be a
> good chance for me to learn more about PyUnit and unit testing in general.
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> but...
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> It does also seem like a lot of extra work and perhaps overkill for this
> sized project.
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> Sorry I did not break the tie.
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> BTW,
> http://svn.browsershots.org/trunk/devtools/pep8/pep8.py
> is a source code checker to validate a file is in PEP8 format.(i think)
> No idea if it works well or not, just a thought.
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