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Small Victories

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Yesterday I successfully used map() and lambda without having to look @ the documentation (and yet I link to the documentation)!
Something like:
some_url = "http://www.foo.com/"
things = ["foo",…

Little nose Gotcha

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This little nuance of nose nabs me everytime. Let’s assume you have the following layout:
% tree .
.
|– bar.py
|– baz.py
`– foo.py

0 directories, 3 files

And let’s assume that each of our files have some…

Terry Peppers: Developers in Testing

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Jesse says:
…and finding Quality Assurance people with Python experience (especially advanced Test Engineering skills) is even harder.
…either you teach QA people automation/test engineering, or you try to find a…

Terry Peppers: Functional Test Generators - With a Twist

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One of the key benefits of nose is the concept of test generators. Py.test has the same type of feature but they’re called generative tests.
nose on test generators:
nose will iterate the generator, creating a…