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-    Aug 13, 2008: `Testing RESTful web services in Django -- Tantalizingly Close. <E20080813061054.html>`_



    Thanks to whoever put the testserver into Django.  What a helpful thing.  It doesn't solve all my testing problems, but it sure beats the alternative.



    The big Pain In The Ass is moving from built-in unit tests to full REST tests using a REST client.

-    Dec 24, 2007: `How Essential Is Unit Testing?  Or, How Do We Make It Essential? <E20071224063101.html>`_



    A client said they couldn't do unit testing.  I've seen blog postings about how hard it is.  I think I may see the underlying problem.  While it is funny to see people try to wriggle out of testing, what I think is required is a set of meta-quality attributes.

-    Aug 14, 2007: `User Interface Testing <E20070814063420.html>`_



    "We have a web application; it takes forever to test.  What do we do?"

-    Oct 11, 2006: `Refactoring and Unit Testing <E20061010201911.html>`_

    Look at Tim Bray's posting on Refactoring, "`Oooh, Cédric <http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2006/10/02/Cedric-on-Refactoring>`__ ".  An interesting comment is in "`Python/Ruby: script languages, nothing more <http://www.zwitserloot.com/2006/10/01/pythonruby-script-languages-nothing-more/>`__ ".



-    Apr 17, 2006: `Doctest beyond Python <E20060417105344.html>`_

    Ian Bicking has some notes on using Doctest to debug Logo programs [`link <http://blog.ianbicking.org/javascript-doctest.html>`__ ].



-    Feb 27, 2006: `Agile Testing Goodies from PyCon 2006 <E20060227062653.html>`_

    See Agile Testing [`link <http://agiletesting.blogspot.com/2006/02/agile-development-and-testing-wiki-and.html>`__ ] PyCon 2006 tutorial on testing frameworks and how they fit together.



-    Dec 26, 2005: `testresources <E20051226085740.html>`_

    TestResources extends the TestCase and TestRunner to optimize a number of tests around the resources used.



-    Dec 20, 2005: `SubUnit <E20051220133649.html>`_

    SubUnit extends the definition of Test Runners to reach outside Python.



-    Dec 15, 2005: `Twisted Trial <E20051215121015.html>`_

    Since this is intimately married to Twisted, it may not be appropriate as a stand-alone testing tool.  However, it has some slick extensions to the Fixture and TestSuite patterns.



-    Dec 13, 2005: `More Frameworks! (rev. 3) <E20051213134054.html>`_

    Seven more testing tools (frameworks?)



-    Nov 09, 2005: `Compare and Contrast (round 3, revised) <E20051109143830.html>`_

    Using the original Beck Test Framework as a yardstick.  Part 3: nose, TestOOB, test.py.  These three leverage the existing unittest (pyunit) module



-    Nov 07, 2005: `Compare and Contrast (round 2) <E20051107125049.html>`_

    Using the original Beck Test Framework as a yardstick.  Part 2: py.test.  Why this one product?  Because it stands alone, unlike nose and TestOOB.



-    Nov 05, 2005: `Compare and Contrast (round 1) <E20051105152154.html>`_

    Using the original Beck Test Framework as a yardstick.  Part 1: unittest and doctest.



-    Nov 02, 2005: `Python Unit Testing Frameworks (v3) <E20051101191219.html>`_

    Yes, there are a bunch.  This means that (a) it's important and (b) it's easy.  Everyone can throw their hat in this ring.




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