[Pyunit-interest] Unitesting organisation

[Joel Q. <joe...@ho...>]

Hi all,

I am new to unitTesting practice, I start using it after having red some
article on
Extreme Programming.  I have start to implement it in an application I am
currently
writing.  I need to do that to be able to improve it quicker, avoid spending
time in
debugging due to change.  I ask myself many question about that.

I have an application in Python to download web pages and extract some data
from them.

At starting point, I have used a configfile with the configParser Python
object.
Due to many value are not changing frequently (principaly url), I have put
those
variable directly in the Python code.  Now, I have the following solution, a
configfile
and an object (which use the configParser object to parse the file)
containing  more
constant variable in it.  I have also implemented the singleton pattern in
this object,
this permit to avoid the parsing of the config file every time.

I have implemented the folowing stuff:
- I have put my test file in the same folder as the code file.
- I use the httpServer in python to have a web server for testing

My interrogation are :
- should I implement a testing configfile and a testing parser object which
contains variable too ?
 - What is the best solution to avoid name file conflict ?
- Should I implement other way to put my testfile ?

This is my current question.  I hope to be clear enough (English is not my
mother language).

Thanks for your remarks, questions, and suggestions.

Joel